Finally, Absinthe conjures up bohemia and the lives of garret-bound artists, or, to put it another way, that part of the middle and upper classes in modernity that rejects their class position to pursue spiritual ends, what the sociologist of art Pierre Bourdieu calls “the dominated fraction of the dominant class.” (I have no idea what “Sillantoe” is supposed to evoke, however.) Anselm II was a medieval pope who defended the rights of the church, as against the state, to appoint figures combining temporal and spiritual authority, such as bishops and abbots thus, unlike Agatha, he represents a commingling of spiritual power with political power. According to the Internet, Saint Agatha is the patron saint of fire and is renowned for her resistance to the Roman Empire. This warship is on a mission to assess and possibly to destroy the natives of the island of Saint Agatha, which is about to be annexed by the “new state of Sillantoe.”Īlready, these names suggest allegory. It concerns a Colonel Absinthe who serves on the ship Anselm II. This short, classic Italian graphic novel of 1986 takes a fairly familiar topic-the colonial encounter between a mechanized imperial civilization and a culture without a state and without complex technological development-and performs a colorful fantasia, less narrative than lyric.
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