Filed under: Novel
A woman’s life can fall down in few seconds. Céline Giraud a Peruvian girl, aged 25 and , discovers the unthinkable. When she was just a baby, she had been rapted from her parents 16 days after her birth by thieves.
They were members of child traffic. Céline knew she was adopted by a french family, but she tought, as her adoptive parents, that her biologic mother had abandonned her because she couldn’t rear her own daughter.
Céline makes an investigation to find her biologic parents an the men who rapted her. In Peru, she meets a poor family, her own family. Then she warns up the police station and gives all the details of this child traffic and the name of the 24 children rapted.
In her book Céline Giraud tells us her incredible travel, from France to Peru, but also from her mother to her biologic mother living in a ghetto.
Filed under: Comic books
« My name is Etienne, and i’m an alcoholic ». Thoose words are the firts words of this graphic novel. In fact, this is an autobiography and it gives a real power to the story. In another life, Etienne Schréder, was a civil servant, recorder in a prison. In the soft spiral of alcohol (yes, it does exist !), with its obliged stations : pubs, friends, homeless persons…This is absurd, incoherent…this is a purgatory !
For such scenario, you have to be courageous : sharped angle shots in black and white make the hero a real « shivering shadow » dismembermented. The moral is somewhere between fatalism and hope because, a night in winter 1984, Etienne stoped drinking. But we don’t know the reason, maybe a piece dignity. But all thoose events brougth us a new talented author.
Filed under: Comic books
This comic concentrates qualities of 3 authors. This comic testifies a realism without moralism by drawings and sketches.
The scenario of Denis is about the main character, somebody who wan the lotto, and his relationships with his sweetheart. His obsessive fear is to lose the ticket, and this fear turns into a real nightmare.
Men look like more fragile than women. But faced to this question, the answer can be given by the psychosociologists. And the judgment is yours…
L’oeil était dans la tombe, Christian De Metter
French comic books could be very unhealthy. Christian De Metter shows us a surprising face of a dream world. Sex, murders, alcohol…all is used to take the reader in a black world where a serial killer commits murders after murders.
The hero, who is more like an antihero, leads an ordinary life swatted by the others. The plot is montrously strictness and unconscionable stressful. The investigator meets a young blind boy, who is more « lucid » than normal persons.
But the pictures are very well drawed. The colors, in the majority black and green, are very effective.
In conclusion, pictures and scenario meddle each other giving us 72 pages of pure thrill !
Filed under: Novel
In her new novel Ni d’Eve, ni d’Adam Amélie Nothomb, who wan French Academy Price, turns back to Japan, with its wonderful landscape and her very first love story.
Amélie Nothomb’s fan will be pleased ! Her 16th novel, published inseptember 2007 tells us her very first love. The scene takes place in modern Japan where Amélie Nothomb was born. It is also an opportunity for her to analyse her writing obsession. She writes since she was 17. It is her confession, her verdict, but above all, her life ! Since that day, she publishes one novel the year. His first success, “” was translated to 37 languages. Then, she waited until last September to write a part of her autobiography, two loves, Japan memories and Rinri, a japan guy. 17 years waiting for such details !
“A love story, it takes time to digest !” says Amélie Nothomb. 17 years digesting it ! What a fat meat ! Or what a strong love story…
“it’s the very first time I felt respected” she says. You have to know how respect is a important quality in Japan.
Sometimes spectator, sometimes actress, she tells us what are the love rites in Japan, highlighting what is comic or artificial for occidental people. Come back to Japan was something like a therapy curing her personal problems and illness.
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