Reistating the Laws of Chance: Breccia’s throw of the dice with Ernesto Sabato’s Informe sobre ciegos. ; Restabelecendo as Leis da Chance: o lance de dados de Breccia com o Relatório de Ernesto Sabato sobre os Cegos

In 1993, the year of his death, Alberto Breccia’s retelling of Ernesto Sabato’s Report on the Blind was finally published (first in Spain by Ediciones B and for the first time in Argentina by Editorial Colihue in 2007). Indeed, finally is the most fitting word to invoke its convoluted publication history: after an agonizing wait lasting over fifteen years – turning out to be a productive incubation period – Sabato eventually granted Breccia permission to recreate and publish the comic version of his literary work. One could say that Breccia’s Report on the Blind is not a single work but is emb... Mehr ...