Whale Library
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Book Introduction
A postman goes to sea, a whale comes out to breathe in the middle of the night to escape hunters
What story will unfold from this accidental collision between the two?
There are two main things we need to understand the world.
Information and stories.
Information seeks to show the world as it is, in the realm of science and objectivity.
This is the sky, the sea is the vast, salty water part of the earth, excluding the land, it indicates, defines and explains.
But is this information truly reliable? The notion that the Earth is round and that the Sun revolves around it has long been considered dangerous misinformation.
Fortunately, there is more than one way to understand the world.
People look at and understand the world from their own perspectives and positions.
And they put their heads together and talk to share their understanding of the world.
That's why poetry, stories, fiction, and art exist.
How does the world exist? It exists as we speak and sing.
The graphic novel "The Whale Library" begins with a beautiful fantasy about a huge whale's belly filled with a vast collection of books.
The sea is so vast and deep that its depths remain unknown and full of secrets.
There are mermaids and crab people in the sea, a legendary tree that grows endlessly, and a “sunken city where the ghosts of the lost dwell.”
Of course, there must be whales that carry libraries within their bellies! The belly of a whale was once a place as mysterious as the deep sea itself.
In the Old Testament, Jonah survived three days in the belly of a whale, and the wooden puppet Pinocchio was swallowed by a large fish before meeting his grandfather Geppetto, whom he had longed for so much.
How significant is it that Jonah and Pinocchio, who were swallowed by a whale and then came out into the world, became completely different beings than before?
The person who met the whale in the Whale Library is the postman of the sea.
A postman who fills his sealskin bag with letters and rows out in the middle of the ocean for waterproofing.
It's a very dangerous and somewhat absurd job, but it's essential for fishermen fishing in the open sea, lighthouse keepers who keep the darkness light, and castaways waiting for the floral pants they ordered years ago.
So the postman goes out to sea despite his pregnant wife's attempts to stop him.
Perhaps, if it weren't for the accident where I collided with a whale that came up to breathe in the dark of the night, I would have safely delivered the letter and returned home.
But as fate would have it, a collision occurs, the boat capsizes, and the whale is truly sorry.
“We have to come up to the surface at night to breathe.
Because of the whale hunters… … .
“Do you understand?” Of course I do.
Because when it comes to the sea, humans will always be guests, invaders, or lovers who can never reach it.
What story will unfold from this accidental collision between the two?
There are two main things we need to understand the world.
Information and stories.
Information seeks to show the world as it is, in the realm of science and objectivity.
This is the sky, the sea is the vast, salty water part of the earth, excluding the land, it indicates, defines and explains.
But is this information truly reliable? The notion that the Earth is round and that the Sun revolves around it has long been considered dangerous misinformation.
Fortunately, there is more than one way to understand the world.
People look at and understand the world from their own perspectives and positions.
And they put their heads together and talk to share their understanding of the world.
That's why poetry, stories, fiction, and art exist.
How does the world exist? It exists as we speak and sing.
The graphic novel "The Whale Library" begins with a beautiful fantasy about a huge whale's belly filled with a vast collection of books.
The sea is so vast and deep that its depths remain unknown and full of secrets.
There are mermaids and crab people in the sea, a legendary tree that grows endlessly, and a “sunken city where the ghosts of the lost dwell.”
Of course, there must be whales that carry libraries within their bellies! The belly of a whale was once a place as mysterious as the deep sea itself.
In the Old Testament, Jonah survived three days in the belly of a whale, and the wooden puppet Pinocchio was swallowed by a large fish before meeting his grandfather Geppetto, whom he had longed for so much.
How significant is it that Jonah and Pinocchio, who were swallowed by a whale and then came out into the world, became completely different beings than before?
The person who met the whale in the Whale Library is the postman of the sea.
A postman who fills his sealskin bag with letters and rows out in the middle of the ocean for waterproofing.
It's a very dangerous and somewhat absurd job, but it's essential for fishermen fishing in the open sea, lighthouse keepers who keep the darkness light, and castaways waiting for the floral pants they ordered years ago.
So the postman goes out to sea despite his pregnant wife's attempts to stop him.
Perhaps, if it weren't for the accident where I collided with a whale that came up to breathe in the dark of the night, I would have safely delivered the letter and returned home.
But as fate would have it, a collision occurs, the boat capsizes, and the whale is truly sorry.
“We have to come up to the surface at night to breathe.
Because of the whale hunters… … .
“Do you understand?” Of course I do.
Because when it comes to the sea, humans will always be guests, invaders, or lovers who can never reach it.
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This story has been given new life.
I dried this story, which the waves had pushed onto the sand, by the campfire, and took out each sentence.
I breathed life into every word in the story.
A story that made me smile.
---p.3
Like the human heart, the sea is full of secrets.
When people's hearts are overflowing, they pick up a pen and use a blank sheet of paper as an ocean to throw away whatever is weighing them down.
We learn to talk just as we learn to swim so we don't sink.
---p.5
A person who has not seen a whale's smile has no humor.
---p.34
To a letter, leaving is nothing.
For one person, leaving means everything.
---p.40
I can hear the sound of laughter from inside my mother's womb.
It is the sound of life blooming like a flower in the stomach.
The mother speaks to the baby in a voice as sweet as honey.
Don't make too many promises.
I'll give you some warm milk.
I'll hug you lots and lots.
I'll hold you tight in my arms and sing you a lullaby.
The baby believes in his mother's promises.
Babies have to do that.
Otherwise, that little heart will stop beating.
It will just flow as it is.
---p.58
I actually prefer coming out on moonless nights.
Because of the whale hunters... You understand? Before the sun rose and the hunters discovered it, the whale... hurriedly dove.
As I exhale towards the black sky filled with poetry of hope.
---p.62
You who used to read stories to me… One day, while walking along the beach… If you find a book washed up on the waves… I beg you to please take it with you.
I dried this story, which the waves had pushed onto the sand, by the campfire, and took out each sentence.
I breathed life into every word in the story.
A story that made me smile.
---p.3
Like the human heart, the sea is full of secrets.
When people's hearts are overflowing, they pick up a pen and use a blank sheet of paper as an ocean to throw away whatever is weighing them down.
We learn to talk just as we learn to swim so we don't sink.
---p.5
A person who has not seen a whale's smile has no humor.
---p.34
To a letter, leaving is nothing.
For one person, leaving means everything.
---p.40
I can hear the sound of laughter from inside my mother's womb.
It is the sound of life blooming like a flower in the stomach.
The mother speaks to the baby in a voice as sweet as honey.
Don't make too many promises.
I'll give you some warm milk.
I'll hug you lots and lots.
I'll hold you tight in my arms and sing you a lullaby.
The baby believes in his mother's promises.
Babies have to do that.
Otherwise, that little heart will stop beating.
It will just flow as it is.
---p.58
I actually prefer coming out on moonless nights.
Because of the whale hunters... You understand? Before the sun rose and the hunters discovered it, the whale... hurriedly dove.
As I exhale towards the black sky filled with poetry of hope.
---p.62
You who used to read stories to me… One day, while walking along the beach… If you find a book washed up on the waves… I beg you to please take it with you.
---p.79
Publisher's Review
A beautiful world that only graphic novels can reach.
Right here, there is a story, there is art, there is life.
The graphic novel "Whale Library" is a book that shows the limitless possibilities of the "graphic novel" genre, which combines novels and graphics.
What genre could possibly express a story about a huge whale in the very, very deep sea, a library filled with books inside the whale's belly, and a sea postman who meets the whale and borrows beautiful storybooks?
The book the whale lent contains the story of a mermaid who loves pirates.
Unlike the story on land, the mermaid gains two legs and instead becomes human, she wears a black eye patch like a pirate, and the one-eyed pirate 'Redbeard' accepts the mermaid's thunderous love.
Because whales hate stories that end sadly.
Anything can happen in the ocean, but whales don't quite understand what happens on land.
The whale's questions about flying machines, volcanoes, and the sun are questions about everything in the world, and they are questions the postman has never considered.
How many questions is the world filled with? It turns out, stories are what we need to understand a world we've never been to.
The stories in "The Whale Library" resemble myths and legends, the sentences are full of metaphors and symbols like poetry, and Judith Vanistendael's mystical drawings crash and crash like waves in the spaces between the letters.
There is a world here that cannot be expressed without graphic novels.
The ocean teeming with tiny, sparkling, and colorful life, the hazy morning greeted by a postman emerging from the belly of a whale, the whale's heart turning the sea red when the whale is finally killed by humans, the stars falling on the shoulders of people engrossed in stories on the beach where books pouring out of the whale library have arrived.
The whale, who knew how to read love, death, and sadness in the fallen leaves the postman brought, wanted to collect the leaves, but died while waiting for the postman without any protection.
The postman, who failed to keep his promise when the child was born, feels guilt and sadness instead of the whale hunter.
As always, humans who destroy nature and humans who realize their mistakes do not agree.
But for the whales who hate sad stories, we will have to read books that are washed ashore by the waves forever.
“So that salty tears will no longer flow.”
In the Whale Library, as befitting a library, all kinds of stories are piled up in layers and cross over various stories.
When the whale and the postman talk about their world in the dark night sea, it becomes a “journey of getting to know each other.”
Because sharing a story is different from simply exchanging information.
A postman reads a book he borrowed from a whale to his pregnant wife, and in the story, a mermaid kisses a pirate.
The whale with the library and the pregnant wife are both beings with stories, and the story of the Little Mermaid and Bluebeard went to the sea and had a happy ending.
The story captures every corner of the world as they meet, collide, mix, and scatter again.
So, the sea, with its endless waves crashing and heaving, cannot help but be a story in itself.
What do we gain from stories?
Confirm love, understand death, and soothe sorrow.
This is why I can't imagine a life without stories.
"The Whale Library" is a must-read for anyone who loves poetry, stories, fiction, and art, and anyone who wants to better understand the world they live in.
Of course, for those who wonder about the meaning of graphic novels.
Right here, there is a story, there is art, there is life.
The graphic novel "Whale Library" is a book that shows the limitless possibilities of the "graphic novel" genre, which combines novels and graphics.
What genre could possibly express a story about a huge whale in the very, very deep sea, a library filled with books inside the whale's belly, and a sea postman who meets the whale and borrows beautiful storybooks?
The book the whale lent contains the story of a mermaid who loves pirates.
Unlike the story on land, the mermaid gains two legs and instead becomes human, she wears a black eye patch like a pirate, and the one-eyed pirate 'Redbeard' accepts the mermaid's thunderous love.
Because whales hate stories that end sadly.
Anything can happen in the ocean, but whales don't quite understand what happens on land.
The whale's questions about flying machines, volcanoes, and the sun are questions about everything in the world, and they are questions the postman has never considered.
How many questions is the world filled with? It turns out, stories are what we need to understand a world we've never been to.
The stories in "The Whale Library" resemble myths and legends, the sentences are full of metaphors and symbols like poetry, and Judith Vanistendael's mystical drawings crash and crash like waves in the spaces between the letters.
There is a world here that cannot be expressed without graphic novels.
The ocean teeming with tiny, sparkling, and colorful life, the hazy morning greeted by a postman emerging from the belly of a whale, the whale's heart turning the sea red when the whale is finally killed by humans, the stars falling on the shoulders of people engrossed in stories on the beach where books pouring out of the whale library have arrived.
The whale, who knew how to read love, death, and sadness in the fallen leaves the postman brought, wanted to collect the leaves, but died while waiting for the postman without any protection.
The postman, who failed to keep his promise when the child was born, feels guilt and sadness instead of the whale hunter.
As always, humans who destroy nature and humans who realize their mistakes do not agree.
But for the whales who hate sad stories, we will have to read books that are washed ashore by the waves forever.
“So that salty tears will no longer flow.”
In the Whale Library, as befitting a library, all kinds of stories are piled up in layers and cross over various stories.
When the whale and the postman talk about their world in the dark night sea, it becomes a “journey of getting to know each other.”
Because sharing a story is different from simply exchanging information.
A postman reads a book he borrowed from a whale to his pregnant wife, and in the story, a mermaid kisses a pirate.
The whale with the library and the pregnant wife are both beings with stories, and the story of the Little Mermaid and Bluebeard went to the sea and had a happy ending.
The story captures every corner of the world as they meet, collide, mix, and scatter again.
So, the sea, with its endless waves crashing and heaving, cannot help but be a story in itself.
What do we gain from stories?
Confirm love, understand death, and soothe sorrow.
This is why I can't imagine a life without stories.
"The Whale Library" is a must-read for anyone who loves poetry, stories, fiction, and art, and anyone who wants to better understand the world they live in.
Of course, for those who wonder about the meaning of graphic novels.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: July 10, 2023
- Format: Hardcover book binding method guide
- Page count, weight, size: 80 pages | 634g | 243*312*10mm
- ISBN13: 9791197381782
- ISBN10: 1197381783
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