Pretending is Lying

Dominique Goblet's Pretending is Lying is a singular, profoundly introspective graphic memoir from The New York Review of Books, originally serialized in Europe and collected in this single 2022 volume. The work, translated by Sophie Yanow, weaves together fragmented memories of a childhood marked by an alcoholic father and a search for identity, rendered in Goblet's raw, expressionistic linework and shifting visual styles. It stands as a landmark of autobiographical comics, celebrated for its unflinching honesty and its innovative fusion of text and image to capture the slippery nature of memory and truth.