Не останаха табута непрегазени: „Котаракът на равина“
No taboo remains inviolate: The Rabbi’s Cat

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the ever more discernable trend in contemporary comics and animated film to address problematics for adults. Both arts have been distancing themselves over the last decades from the traditional archetypes and codes to explore new thematic areas such as traumatic experience, political or religious aggression, violating privacy, etc. Comics/animated works for adults have much more to do with the European and world art house films than with the overexposure of stereotypical superheroes such as Batman or Captain America. Comics approached also an unusual for their development genre, social and existential drama, to invest its profound messages with a new artistic form. The article is an analysis of The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux. It is a borderline case with two addressees, blending comical with serious. Within its funny narrative structure, the film focuses on deep conflicts-religious, political, bureaucratic, nationalistic-chauvinistic, racial, generational, etc. The undertone of the dialogue refers to theological and philosophical disputes, questioning every fanatical interpretation of lines of the Talmud, Bible or the Koran. a scathing post-modern ironic stance towards blind literal adherence is the message conveyed by this movie. a comparative analysis is made of the visual, compositional and verbal specifics of the comics and the animated film.

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