Marjane, meri jaan!
The best compliment I ever received in my life long ago was how I reminded him of Marjane. Yes, you heard me right. Trust me even I was also as surprised, taken aback and flattered beyond words. But what happened thereafter is more than interesting, it's my lived experience. Yes, you are right once you've read Persepolis there's no turning back. It was like no other in it's honesty, humour and format. In literature old and new many formats have been introduced since the times of Tindale and Satrapi's graphic novel couldn't be anything else, epoch breaking in every way. As a student of literature it was more fascinating to me to say the least, and the stark black and white made the irony ring very close and personal. I think that's why it became this "universal fable of childhood" as it's being called today. Your world view is bound to shift once you finished reading it. So it did for me as well. Her sense of irony and constant defiance rang a ...
