{"id":14500,"date":"2019-02-19T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cortomaltese.com\/en\/?p=14500"},"modified":"2020-08-04T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T07:42:37","slug":"corto-maltese-the-secret-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cortomaltese.com\/en\/corto-maltese-the-secret-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Corto Maltese – The Secret Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"
C<\/span>orto Maltese\u2019s adventure this time is indeed highly surreal and dreamlike and is packed with references to a mythological background that changes according to the varied actions that involve the Holy Grail, Death, the Devil, the Sandman and others. There is a whole range of strange characters pitted against Corto, who is finally acquitted at the end of a long (and very amusing) debate. <\/strong><\/p>\n In this episode Pratt makes Corto Maltese drink from the \u201csource of the Alchemy Rose\u201d<\/em> thus giving him a sort of eternal youth, a key for the initiatory passage to a spiritual imaginative world.<\/p>\n<\/div> The writer Herman Hesse<\/a><\/strong>, who Corto Maltese met in Montagnola in 1924, is a character who is directly connected to the content of this story thanks to his novel \u201cKlingsor’s Last Summer\u201d<\/strong>. Another real figure is Tamara Lempicka<\/strong><\/a>, a very talented artist who was famous not only for her portraits, but also for her beauty. Rasputin and Corto\u2019s friend Professor Steiner also appears.<\/p>\n<\/div> IDW Publishing, San Diego. CA<\/strong>
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\n9.25\u201d x 11.625\u201d Trade Paperback, 80pp.
\nISBN: 978-1684054022
\n$19.99<\/p>\n