From Marie Desplechin to Lucy Maud Montgomery, childhood wounds
Witches in battle at school, orphans thrown into life… in family cauldrons, there is something for the little ones, the grown-ups and even everyone else.
Marie Desplechin, a somewhat witchy storyteller
Verte and Pome return, threatened by news, the Mauve terror…
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Conte Witches rule and Marie Desplechin gladly dispatch them as scouts in school classes. After two volumes sizzling with mischief devoted to Verte and Pome, the writer stirs bad luck in the not always magical cauldrons of adolescence. “Mauve”, a novel published in 2014, benefits here from the illustrations of Magali Le Huche.
“Mauve”, a novel celebrated in 2014, becomes an illustrated album by Magali Le Huche.
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Marie Desplechin, born in Roubaix in 1959, prolific novelist for young and old alike. And even the others.
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Beautiful association, because his cheerful line crunches the childish faces with an ironic self-mockery which defuses the drama a little. For the two heroines, it’s been hell since the irruption of Mauve, a funny bitch and powerful. The atmosphere has turned to drama, the girlfriends are harassed in college, subdued through, as soon, the rest of their family. Even the obese petunias on the balconies nod. Everyone has their say here, and that’s probably the most important thing. KEY
«Mauve»
Desplechin and Le Huche
Ed. Rue de Sevres, 104 p.
Uli Oesterle opens his family book
Comic Inveterate party animal and great womanizer, Rufus Himmelstoss has burned his life at both ends. One day in 1975, this irresponsible family man abruptly disappeared from circulation, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves. Thirty years later, the boy who has become an adult finds his father… stiff dead in his coffin. What happened during these three decades of absence?
Uli Oesterle tackles his own story in “Le lait paternal”, the first volume in a series that should have four.
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This is the whole point of the graphic novel “Paternal milk”, signed by Uli Oesterle. Drawing inspiration from his own story through fictional characters, the German author wonders about father-son relationships, and wonders if we don’t inevitably end up reproducing the same patterns.
First volume of a series which should have four, this story with a semi-realistic drawing reveals the emotion behind a rather harsh statement, the story of two damaged lives.PMU
“Father’s Milk”
Uli Oesterle
Ed. Dargaud, 128 p.
An expressionist trait that marks childhood pains with a hot iron.
Ed. Dargaud
Anne, the Canadian redhead who should be seen growing up
Anne Shirley, the heroine launched in 1905 by Canadian Lucy Maud Montgomery, has seen her adventures adapted into a series on Netflix, among other tributes. Except in French-speaking territory where it remained unknown…
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Saga Since 2020, Mr. Toussaint Louverture has unearthed the saga of Anne Shirley, an absolute masterpiece of children’s literature in ten volumes. In 1905, the Canadian novelist Lucy Maud Montgomery became infatuated with this redheaded and intrepid orphan, who in a Victorian farmhouse in Green Gables, on Prince Edward Island, emancipated herself from convention as a rebellious boy.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, a Canadian writer to (re)discover. Five volumes of his saga are published by Monsieur Toussaint Laventure.
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More than the altogether banal plot, the writing fascinates here, hooking the emotions with an impertinent humor, abandoning itself to the wild poetry of the landscapes, romantic as hell. The kid shines there with a solar impetuosity, catchy in the observation, malignant at the moment of harpooning the attention. Yet Anne grows up through fabulously ordinary adventures. Here she is as a young bride in volume V, “Anne and her dream house”.CLE
“Anne and her dream house”
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Ed. Mr. Toussaint Louverture, 330 p.
Cecile Lecoultreof Belgian origin, graduated from the University of Brussels in art history and archaeology, has been writing in the cultural section since 1985. She is passionate about literature and cinema…among others!
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Philippe Muri is a journalist, co-responsible for the cultural section. It covers in particular comic strips and cultural outings. He also worked as a sports journalist or editor for the daily newspapers “Le Matin” and “Le Temps”, as well as for the weekly “L’Illustré”.
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@phimuriPublished: 29.05.2022, 08:59
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