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Corto’s gaze has a taste of ultimate freedom, of total eternity.
A storyteller and child reader, Hugo Pratt was passionate about Ernest
Hemingway, Jack London, and Robert Louis Stevenson, a teenager of the
«age of extremes.»
From the Second World War to the Italian colonies, he transcribed this
drama and adventure, moving from black ink to white paper, from shadow
to light, to create a thrilling synthesis like a tango in the flash of a knife.
Watercolors, Indian inks, and lithographs vibrate with the sea breeze and
carry hearts to the rhythm of this dazzling traveler, a superb dark-haired
man with a gait as sure as it is nonchalant.
This fascinating sailor forever captivates the hearts of his readers
with his deliciously ironic, utterly self-centered,
and irremediably solitary charm.
A modern-day Ulysses, a great lover of Shakespeare,
he fills his dreams with our fantasies of freedom
in his quest for eternity.
Hugo Pratt, Felix Von Luckner. I Had an Appointment, 1994
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