To commemorate 10 years of the attack on charlie hebdoOn January 7, 2015, the satirical newspaper published a book paying tribute to the eight team members killed that day. Charlie’s freedom. The diary of his life. (Les Echappés, 224 pages, 29.90 euros, in bookstores on December 5) is a book that surprises for its fragility, for its very simplicity, since it is essentially content with showing the images of the cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Honoré , Tignous, Wolinski, and read the texts of the psychoanalyst Elsa Cayat, the editor Mustapha Ourrad and the economist Bernard Marris. We discover, for example, the youthful drawings of Cabu (an advertisement for Météore pens, caricatures made at the age of 15, etc.), of Charb (a family portrait, a high school fanzine, etc.) or of Honoré (some contributions himVermot from the almanac). To those who are missing that Philippe Lançon, in HE Flap (Gallimard, 2018), called “the dispossessed”The book reestablishes, directly on the pages, a solidarity that has its origin in the joys of childhood. Interview with Riss, director of charlie hebdo.
“It is impossible to write anything” about the attack on “Charlie Hebdo”, you wrote in your book “One minute and forty-nine seconds” (Actes Sud, 2019). Is this the reason why the tribute album Does “Charlie Liberté” leave so little space for text and favor drawings?
we always feel It is a little illegitimate to evoke the disappeared, it is very uncomfortable, the years go by, we fear being forgotten. However, they deserve better than to be remembered as victims of an attack: they were first and foremost artists, and their lives as artists or intellectuals began early, before Charlieand radiated beyond Charlie. I wanted to show their talent, their artistic sensitivity, what they created. And then, I like to give the material directly to the reader, I prefer that he discovers himself, that he invents his own story.
Many times you have expressed your refusal to see “Charlie.” become a museum. So, this book, if it is not a museum in your eyes, what is it?
I wanted people to understand everything we lost. Each one of them was a small world, had a unique sensitivity, and that was what was destroyed. The more the years pass, the more time freezes, as if it had stopped on January 7, 2015. I notice this when I meet high school students, at that time they were 5 years old, for them it was an event that belongs to the story. And that seems strange to us, for us it is still a current event, a lived event.
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