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the borders of the city comes the surprise: Shaun Tan and his stories of suburban

Tales from Outer Suburbia ('tr. Com. Small stories periferia'-Rizzoli, Milan, 2008) is a collection of fifteen stories. Shaun Tan were written and illustrated by choosing a visual language for each different story.

Martino Negri writes about the work of writer / illustrator Australian: "The fictional universe conjured from the pages of Tales from Outer Suburbia universe is a fragmented and varied-from a viewpoint of expression, but also thematic- that finds its center of gravity in the idea of \u200b\u200bsuburbs as a place border where you can make discoveries and wonderful encounters, as was the case in the forests of fairy-tale narrative tradition ... "(1)

liminality This device took me back to the idea of" space undecided, "not subject to decision human Gilles Clément describes in his Manifesto of the Third Landscape, "If you stop watching the scenery as the object of human activity now it turns out (...) a lot of undecided spaces, no purpose on which it is difficult pose a name. This unit does not belong to the territory of the shadow or that of light. It is located the edge. "(...) A collection of 'fragments of landscape' that are similar in form but" is an area of \u200b\u200brefuge for diversity. "(2)

curious beings appear in the histories of almost Shaun Tan to break the monotony of the suburbs left to itself, Virgin Islands, creating fantastic. The buffalo that lives nell'appezzamento vacuum "that no one with the grass cut ever" the 'reindeer with no name', huge, blind as a bat, puffing under the antenna with infinite patience animal; the dugong, a rare mammal herbivore, originating in the Indian who appears one day in the garden of the house at number seventeen.

In this topos ideal of creation, the periphery is shapeless, its topographical borders dissolve, as in the story our shipping where each map becomes meaningless for the benefit of the imagination. The world in which adventure is "beyond the factories and waste dumps" and "beyond all signs and roads " as it tells the story of his grandfather .

If, as the philosopher Massimo Cacciari, urban life is no longer geometrically circumscribed and "nean" but it takes a mental dimension, the periphery is not only 'figure' of an area not completely tamed by man (...) is also a mental space, a territory located on the edge of consciousness in which images proliferate and sometimes become stories "(3)

In Tales from Outer Suburbia, the liminal territory," a place of denial and neglect ", he loses his marginal condition gion and becomes the nerve center of wonder.

(1) Martino Negri, from the margins of conscience: the stories illustrated by Shaun Tan in 'Hamelin No. 22: the future of this', March 2009, Hamelin Associazione Culturale, Bologna, pag.76

(2) Gilles Clément, The Third Scene, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2005, p.10

(3) op. cit. p.. 77