The Man Without Talent

The Man Without Talent

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MANGA • 1985
status

Completed

start-date

1/6/1985

end-date

1/12/1986

country-origin

JP

popularity

2812

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synonyms

Der nutzlose Mann

L'homme sans talent

L'uomo senza talento

O Homem Sem Talento

Čovek bez talenta

The Man Without Talent is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs—used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector—hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with. Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan.

(Source: New York Review Books)

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