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Today we do not comment but a comic book about comics: Asterix and the real story, one of those books that I jumped at the time and then regretted it, and to which I have recently had access.

The approach the book from the beginning I found interesting: go shelling various aspects of life in Gaul in the year 50. C. known through history, literature and archeology, and cash them compared to the version offered by Goscinny and Uderzo over the adventures of Asterix, to discover what is real in Asterix and distinguish reality fiction, fantasy tebeística.Y historical facts in this journey we find the answer to questions that many of us have ever done reading Asterix, such as whether the Gauls actually wore plaid, striped, or if they lived in villages with houses as of comics or what role they had in the social organization as the chief characters, the bard or druid.

The writings of the Gallic Wars written by Julius Caesar is one of the sources that provide information about how life was then in Celtic Gaul, and the most frequently cited in the libro.También no room to talk of the Romans and the Gauls romanizados.Los authors compare loq ue is known about the latter with the characters in the village of Serum from the album The Battle of the bosses.

I liked to read, for example, that the fact that Vitalstatistix be the boss without anyone discuss is quite real, but so is that Caesar's gift of democratic elections to confirm in office or give power to Ortopédix applicant.

Meetings of druids in the forest of Carnutes (Asterix and the Goths) is also a fact that really existed. And the fans of the Druids the mistletoe. And the bards who sang odes, though Cacofonix is ​​a somewhat special case).

(The winged helmets, however, as the authors seem to be more based on packs of Gauloises snuff in reality)

It is noted that the authors are not historians that in a couple of days have read the entire collection of Asterix for this study. On the contrary, through the pages of the book is perceived in-depth knowledge and work of Goscinny and Uderzo, and to say that a great affection for her.

What most struck me reading the book is the fact that I was not surprised to discover the reality simlitudes to be showing, but I have been confirming things that somehow suspected. He confirmed that Asterix is ​​pure imagination, but made from good documentation, a good knowledge of that realidad.Y that knowledge, I think, necessary to transform or twist that reality as they do Goscinny.Y Uderzo and that's one of the things that give this series the size it is. And in that process, I would adecir scripts both Asterix and the drawings have been created so that from the beginning a distinction is pretty well what is based the reality of the time, or what today is known of her , what is fantasy, (no further than the magic potion) or intentional anachronisms (often introduced as a nod to llector to create strokes of humor).

Asterix Otros Volumenes (1981)

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