is often compared to "Barefoot Gen" by Keiji Hakazawa to "Maus" by Art Spiegelman. These two monumental works happy part of the twentieth century (before and after the Second World War). If to take some distance with the facts, Spiegelman had transformed the characters into animals, it is not the case for the manga "Barefoot Gen". Monumental, you said? Yes. There are 10 volumes of 250 pages. Therefore total 2500 pages. Based on the author's own story, there, bewildered, at the daily life of a small Japanese Hiroshima capita between 1945 and 1953. The real "star" of this colossal BD is the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima August 6, 1945. Throughout these 2500 pages, we witness the survival of this little man, his doubts and hopes. And we discover a piece of history that has been studied too fast in school. Hiroshima, Japan, is so far ... Formidable pacifist plea, "Barefoot Gen" is a hymn to life. But sensitive souls, abstain. I started reading "Barefoot Gen" for nearly two months. I can read a score of pages each night. The moral of this comic amazing returns as a leitmotif in each volume. Gen's father has repeated numerous times: "wheat buds in winter and we walked on over and over again. But it is firmly rooted and grows straight despite freezing temperatures and snowstorms. Be as strong than he. "
