La lagunadei bei sogni e un solo (lungo) silenzio

The lagoon of sweet dreams and onlyone (long) silence. Hugo Pratt has been the first cartoonist able to highlight both dialogues and silences into adventure. In a short tale belonging to the first series of Corto Maltese's adventures-the charachter is present only in a few frames, at the very beginning and at the end-Pratt shows to the reader the last moments of an English sargent escaped from the First World War. His delirium is coincident with the accomplishment of all his desires. The penultimate page proposes three close-up of three different characters (Corto Maltese is the last one) looking towards us, silently. For the comics'history these three framesare memorable, marking the passage from dream to reality, from death to life.

甜梦泻湖与那唯一的悠长静谧。雨果·普拉特（Hugo Pratt）是首位能在冒险题材漫画中兼顾对话与静默艺术表现力的漫画家。在《科尔托·马尔泰塞》（Corto Maltese）首辑冒险短篇故事中——该角色仅在开篇与结尾的寥寥数格中登场——普拉特为读者呈现了一名从第一次世界大战中脱逃的英国中士的终末时刻。此时他的谵妄，恰与所有夙愿的达成同步。倒数第二页呈现了三位不同角色的特写画面（最后一位正是科尔托·马尔泰塞），他们静默地望向读者。在漫画史上，这三格画面堪称经典，标志着从梦境到现实、从死亡到新生的跨越。