THE MORNING LIST
At the beginning of autumn, the columnists of “Le Monde” have selected for you fourteen albums, among the escape of a teenager who became very famous, voluntary confinement, hard news, romantic excitement and a Nazi camp reserved for women.
“Shinkirari, Behind the Curtain, Freedom”: chronicle of emancipation
Inside the Japanese avant-garde magazine Garo where she was one of the eminent writers, Murasaki Yamada was an exception in offering an intimate and languid testimony of the life of a housewife in the 1980s. A balancing act between a heavy domesticity and a desire for freedom that the author will have experienced. .
Disappeared in 2009, the mangaka stands out far beyond the themes she addresses: for the modernity of an economical and fluid line, but also for a staging that mixes protagonists that are sometimes faceless, or very fleeting, but particularly vivid. P.Cr.
By Murasaki Yamada, translated from Japanese by Sara Correia, Kana, 384 p., €18.50.
“Kinderzimmer”: the inhabitants of Ravensbrück
The slightest reference to deportation reveals a cloud of ethical questions. Unhealthy? Voyeur? Enough? Obscene? And what can we say about the logic of profitability in the publishing world, which makes any literary project around the Nazi camps suspect? Surrounded by warnings, Ivan Gros spent years searching for the right tone.
The proposal is, in short, striking: the designer adapted it to a comic daycarenovel by Valentine Goby (Actes Sud, 2013) about the Ravensbrück women’s camp. To do this, he patiently gathered the drawings made by the inmates and then joined them, using Valentine Goby’s text as an invisible thread. This is Ivan Gros’s tour de force: creating a perfectly original work, but disappearing behind the stories of others on every page. ALG.
By Ivan Gros, Actes Sud BD, 400 p., €33.50.
“The criers of crime”: at the turn of the Belle Epoque
Creator of two collections that combine comics and human sciences in La Découverte, Sylvain Venayre knows what comics can contribute when it comes to sharing knowledge. The historian and screenwriter demonstrates this brilliantly by evoking a news story that had a strong impact in 1907: the Soleilland case, named after a Parisian cabinetmaker who raped and killed a girl. The matter, the subject of unprecedented journalistic coverage, shocked public opinion, despite the fact that the Clemenceau government had the intention of abolishing the death penalty, a project that failed after a referendum organized by the newspaper. The little Parisian.
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