Rosalie Blum--trilogy
Publisher
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Actes Sud
Parution date
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EAN
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9782742771080
Number of pages
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128
Description
Visually and intellectually engaging, the Rosalie Blum trilogy is a colorful graphic novel that presents the lives of three emotionally isolated, unhappy, and bored—but certainly not boring—individuals.
Vincent Machot, one of the antiheroes of the first volume, lives in a small town in France. He spends uneventful days, drifting from the barbershop his late father used to run, to the daily meals he shares with his possessive and egocentric mother who lives in the same building as his, to visits with his womanizer of a cousin. He did have a girlfriend, but she left town for Paris. Should he join her? Should he stay in his hometown? Should he make a change or continue doing and saying the same things day after day? Then one day, seemingly without thought, he does something that breaks the monotony. With no particular reason or motivation, he sees a woman in a grocery store and follows her. The woman he follows, Rosalie Blum, is like Vincent in many ways. She lives alone and has no friends—except the bottle. And although she knows that Vincent is following her, she has no idea why.
The second volume focuses on Aude, Rosalie’s niece—another person who is wandering sluggishly through life. She dropped out of college, has no job, and has cut off all relationships with her bourgeois family. She does have good friends, women of her own age, but their lives are mirrors of hers. Aude’s favorite activity is lying in bed for hour after hour until it is time to meet her friends to do the same things they always do. Then, Rosalie asks Aude to help her discover why Vincent is so obsessed with her . . . and the hunt is on.
The third volume takes us more deeply into the lives of the three main characters. When the three finally meet, we find that there is more to Rosalie’s past than to her present . . . and that who she really is is linked to Vincent’s obsessive conduct. The more we learn, the more we wonder if anyone’s existence is really that dreary. All of these people are full of life, and their lives are full of hilarious and warming events. Jourdy presents them with ironic tenderness, and like her, we come to love them.
Author
Camille Jourdy : Camille Jourdy was born in 1979 and lives in Lyon. She was educated at Beaux-Arts in Epinal and Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg. She has previously published, as an author, Une araignée, des tagliatelles et au lit, tu parles d’une vie! (Éditions Drozophile, 2004) and Séraphine ou le charme incertain (Éditions Drozophile, 2005) and, as an illustrator, has collaborated with a range of authors.
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