2023-06-10 08:51:53
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New in bookstores: our favorites of the week zoom in on comic books, a beautiful book and tales.
Discover “The Elephant” by Isabelle Pralong, a monograph devoted to the artist Frédéric Cordier,
BD – A beautiful elephant back
“The Elephant”. A drawing like no other to serve a touching story.
ED. ATRABILE
A good fifteen years since we had not reread “The Elephant”, one of the best books published by the Genevan Isabelle Pralong. Published in 2007 by Vertige Graphic, winner of the prix Töpffer and the Révélation prize in Angoulême, the album had disappeared from bookstores for a long time. Here it is brought back to the fore, in a different format and under a new engraving.
“The Elephant”, excerpt.
ED. ATRABILE
With hindsight, this emotional black-and-white graphic novel has lost none of its intensity. The story of a mother, Claire, confronted with an unknown father emerging from nowhere just before dying, paternity recognition certificate in her pocket. The young woman has never seen her father. She suddenly finds herself confronted by a stranger who has suffered a stroke, is thin and in a coma. Difficult reunions…
“The Elephant”, excerpt.
ED. ATRABILE
With her unparalleled stripped graphics, quirky framing, her sense of dialogue and voice-overs, Isabelle Pralong captures the doubts and dull pain of a distraught woman, who awaits explanations and dreads them. The sensitive and modest narration of the author transforms a compelling drama into a moment of slightly offbeat humanity. Gorgeous.
“The Elephant”, Isabelle Pralong. Ed. Atrabile 80 p. Dedication Thursday, June 15 from 6 p.m., Cumulus bookstore, 5 rue des Étuves.
Beau-livre – Frédéric Cordier in detail
Frédéric Cordier in June 2018 at the Laroche/Joncas gallery in Montreal. The Vaudois and Canadian visual artist poses in front of “Container Ship”, a linocut on paper 2 meters by 2 meters. A graduate of ECAL, the artist established in Montreal is pursuing a successful international career. A monograph retraces twelve years of painting, drawing and engraving.
DOMINIQUE FAVERE
We met him in Montreal in 2018. Frédéric Cordier was still an “écalien” on the rise. At 32, the Valdo-Canadian, had just landed his first solo exhibition at the Laroche/Joncas gallery, one of the most renowned on the Montreal scene, which deemed him “well on the way to exploding”, praising “his unique approach and his discipline as a Zen monk”.
“Frédéric Cordier 2010-2022”, bilingual monograph (French-English) directed by Laurence Schmidlin and co-published by Association Ink. in Moudon and art&fiction in Lausanne. Graphics: Emmanuel Crivelli (Dual Room, Biel) and Orfeo Lanz, 30x24cm, 196 pages.
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Five years later, it is the work of a confirmed artist that is the subject of a first monograph of 196 pages (including 117 illustrated), under the direction of Laurence Schmidlin. Co-published by art&fiction, the book retraces twelve years of work in the fields of painting, drawing and engraving. A book-object with stunning graphics that perfectly echoes the artistic approach of the artist, zooming in and out in his landscapes coded in binary language and his serial engravings of a supposedly infallible rigor where, always, error arises .
News – Cendrars as a duo
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In 1914, Blaise Cendrars volunteered during the First World War. In 1915, he lost his writing arm in combat. Two close moments, two texts published twenty years apart, in 1918 and 1938, here republished together.
“I killed”, Cendrars wanted it as a “page of blood”, which restores the ultraviolence in the heart of the trenches: “Everything bursts, cracks, thunders, all at once. General conflagration.” In the second, we find the writer just amputated, then convalescing, in a bishopric transformed into a military hospital. Written with the hindsight of the years, the story goes far beyond the personal drama of the author to pay tribute to these anonymous people in much worse shape than him, to the self-sacrifice of the nurses, to the resilience, or to denounce the inhumanity of the doctors. of war. Beyond the testimony explodes the literature.
“I killed”, “I bled”, Blaise Cendrars, Ed. Zoé pocket, 109 p.
Youth – Hucksters in the sights
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Seeds for pink potatoes, turquoise carrots, grains for square eggs: one day, two men come to sell Mara the assurance of a vegetable garden richer in nutrients than her classic garden, for her, her husband and their three children. But the result is far from the promises. A good fairy and the extraordinary gifts of three other children – Zica, Ataz and Zouère – will not be too much to help the family.
Created by the Veveysanne Mireille Tonti, this lively and humorous tale cavorts to sing regarding the products of nature, but also talk regarding self-confidence, and teach young readers to beware of hucksters. A beautiful hardcover book that sparkles even in the illustrations of the Lebanese Josie Bitar.
“Zicatazouère, green peas!”, Mireille Tonti; ill. Josie Bitar, Ed. uTopia, 43 p.
BD – Everyday life staged
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Grand Louis is Louis de la Taille, a cartoonist who, in parallel with his job in the audiovisual sector, stages various anecdotes from his daily life on his Instagram account. Married, with three children, this quadra as long as a pole is inspired by his small family. As in “Le marcassin”, the first album of a new offbeat series with autobiographical accents, drawn in an attractive clear line.
Between confinement and obsession with screens, the story stems from his work on the Web. The author has added elements of fiction, such as an invasion of wild animals. Among others, deer, lynx, bears and wolves invaded Paris. Where do they come from? Why did they migrate to the capital? What will become of Grand Louis, his partner and his kids? Answer in a future volume that we hope will be as pleasant as the beginning of this fable.
“Grand Louis”, Louis de la Taille, Ed. Dupuis, 72 p.
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