Word: ignatz
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...strip by George Herriman that ran between 1918 and 1944, has at last begun a full reprinting with high hopes of finishing the job. First begun by the now-defunct Eclipse Books, which got as far as 1924, Fantagraphics Books has picked up where they left off. "Krazy and Ignatz" (120pp.; $14.95) reprints the full-page, Sunday strips from 1925 and 1926, and will continue to reprint two years-worth of Sundays every year until the end. The common thread throughout is love. And love, in "Krazy Kat," sounds like this...
...three principal Sonnenschein heirs are all played by Ralph Fiennes. The first of them, Ignatz, changes his name to Sors, in order to advance his career as a judge faithfully serving the empire. He ends up bitter and betrayed. His son Adam abandons his religion in order to join the right fencing club. He becomes an Olympic gold medalist, but--in the film's most haunting sequence--dies in a concentration camp denying his lost Judaism. His son Ivan becomes a communist bureaucrat, then revolts against that totalitarianism. The picture ends virtually as the century does, with Ivan melting into...
Including the romantic one. None of Fiennes' characters are lucky in love either. Perhaps that's because he's always a man who cannot yield his sense of self to bruising, confident ideology. Ignatz's wife (played first by Jennifer Ehle, then by her mother Rosemary Harris) is his opposite--serene, patient an exemplary survivor. Written by Szabo and playwright Israel Horovitz, Sunshine is a trifle schematic. But it also makes you feel, quite poignantly, the crushing tides of history: heedless, inhuman--and tragic...