Fables amères de tout petits riens

Title

en_US Fables amères de tout petits riens

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Chabouté

Creator

en_US Chabouté See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Chabouté

Date

2016-08-26T13:38:56Z

en_US 2016-02

en_US 2010

Date Available

2016-08-26T13:38:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 2010

Abstract

en_US "The back of this book of graphic short stories -- short stories presented in pictures with short dialogue -- has this short but accurate description: "…incidents dérisoires, broutilles ordinaires, terribles futilités…" There are about ten of these stories tracing trivial occurrences, especially with a surprising or revealing ending. A checkout young woman at the supermarket gets constant criticism from a customer, and then we learn that she has just lost her father. A camel driver lives the hard but vibrant community life of caravans and then comes to the big city with his pole, and his pole turns out to be the broom of a street sweeper. The post office woman refuses to give a package to a man with a different first name than the addressee. He needs to bring a signed statement or an identity card of the addressee himself. In the last panel we learn that the addressee is the man's three-year-old son and this package is his birthday gift. An elderly woman with a cane sits on a bench in a park and watches agile runners go by, focusing on their hips and feet, and then gets up and toddles away. Gritty art fits the tone of these bitter stories. The search for fables sometimes takes me to surprising places!"

Identifier

en_US 10834 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/91432

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Vents d'Ouest

en_US Grenoble, France

Subject

en_US PN6747.C426F33 2010 See all items with this value

en_US Chabouté See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole