Sunday, 20 February 2011
Murder, if You Can Be Bothered
I just came across this hilarious cover for a Spanish edition of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Could Raskolnikov be any less into the murder he's about to commit? Although he barely seems to have the energy to do anything more than gently nudge Alyona Ivanovna with the axe. I've never scene a less dynamic representation of the act of murder.
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He looks like he is lining up for a swing, but has only just woken up.
thats amazing, is there any more in the series?
Japanese movies like this have ruined my mind, and i was freaked out by her eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFKP9lB_F7s
Hence72, I'm not sure. I don't know of any Spanish-language bookshop catalogues which I can easily navigate, or else I'd hunt down some more.
Missdisco, thank you for that. My mind is also now on the path to ruin!
Hilarious cover, like, murder is SUCH a drag. :)
Brilliant cover! Murder frequently fills us with the desire to stare vacantly into space and be decidedly non-passionate about the whole affair.
I think this cover has a 5-star creepiness. It's even more creepy that the models are expressionless. Is this a Tutsis book?
Very weird cover, not sure I would buy a book with that image, sort of reduces everything to one moment, oh, right, that's the point lol.
Christy, it's not a Tutis--sadly, they seem to have stopped making new books.
Actually, it's a snapshot from russian 8-part movie, here: http://www.kp.ru/daily/24014.4/86589/
And sure enough the film is a total disappointment.
Rixavie, thanks for that information--nice to know that they're real people, and not waxworks!
may be of interest to you: http://www.monoscope.com/2008/01/
Murder need not be a messy affair. A light tap here and there to an old ladies head should be enough...
Wow--lovely link, Ian: lots of cover images crying out for books to be written for them!
http://www.nordicalibros.com/ilustrados.php
oh, and
http://www.faktoriakdelibros.com/
http://www.kalandraka.com/es/novedades/1.html
both from a Galician publishing company, quite big in the spainsh ilustration market
Thank you, Cristina: some really lovely work there. I will have to investigate these publishers with a view to a post about them.
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