Spartański miraż i inne złudzenia. O komiksie "Three" Kierona Gillena i Ryana Kelly’ego
Spartan mirage and other illusions. On Kieron Gillen and Ryan Kelly’s comic book 'Three'

Author(s): Damian Kaja
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Sparta; Kieron Gillen; Ryan Kelly; Three; comic book
Summary/Abstract: Although K. Gillen and R. Kelly’s comic book 'Three' (2013–2014), never achieved the readership of F. Miller’s famous '300' (1998), it has stood the test of time in the cultural reception of Sparta as a critique of the graphic novel by the author of 'Sin City'. In 'Three', the attempt was made to demystify with artistic means the “Spartan mirage” on two levels: paratextual and metatextual (covering the work with the writer’s commentary, emphasizing the role of an academic historical consultant), and intratextual (breaking the diegesis of the story, allusiveness, revealing the mechanisms of storytelling in the mode of subjective retrospections). However, the plot and motifs repetition of Thermopylae in the heroic scenario requires the reader to see in 'Three' the illusion of historicity, in fact strengthening the formula of the Spartan myth.

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