Corto Maltese : fable of Venice and other adventures / Hugo Pratt ; translation: Dean Mullaney and Simone Castaldi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pratt, Hugo, author, illustrator.

Contributor:

Mullaney, Dean, 1954- translator.

Castaldi, Simone, translator.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Maltese, Corto (Fictitious character)--Comic books, strips, etc.

Maltese, Corto.

Corto Maltese (Fictitious character)--Comic books, strips, etc.

Corto Maltese (Fictitious character).

Venice (Italy)--Comic books, strips, etc.

Venice (Italy).

Genre:

Historical comics.

Thriller comics.

Physical Description:

130 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First Fantagraphics Books edition.

Other Title:

Fable of Venice and other adventures

Place of Publication:

Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 2026.

Language Note:

In English translated from the French.

Summary:

Corto, a modern Ulysses whose wanderings in the early decades of the 20th century take him to the most fascinating places on Earth, is a hard-luck, hard-driving iconoclastic anti-hero who values freedom and independence more than wealth and status. In "Fable of Venice," a riddle from a deceased friend plunges Corto into a phantasmagorical mystery thriller that zigzags between the solidity of dreams and the fluidity of reality. A frantic chase in 1921 Venice ensues, up twisting stairs and down tangled alleys, as Corto vies against Freemasons, occultists, budding fascists, and his friend (suddenly back from the dead) in a mad scramble to secure a mystical emerald that will open the doors of forbidden magic and unravel time and space itself!--Publisher's site

Contents:

Fable of Venice

The secret of Tristan Bantam

So much for gentlemen of fortune

The seagull's fault

The artist and the adventurer.

ISBN:

9798875001345

OCLC:

1579807162