Biofiction in actual french graphic novels
Шарлотт Краусс
Докладчик
доцент
Университет Пуатье (Франция)
Университет Пуатье (Франция)
Ключевые слова, аннотация
Graphic novel, comic studies, biofiction, biographie.
Тезисы
Since
the 1990s, comics and graphic novels have slowly become a medium that plays a
serious role as «ninth art» far beyond the long dominant
entertainment culture. The graphic novel has also reached the current boom of
the so-called «biofiction» — a literary or film biography of more or less
well-known personalities, told with the use of partly fictional means. Since
the 2000s, several graphic autobiographies have won the favor of readers and
critics — think of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
(2000–2003). The successful four-part series Pablo by Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie (2012–2014), which
focuses on the life of Pablo Picasso, was of crucial importance for explicit
biofictions: For the last five years, a number of graphic biofictions have been
published, particularly in France. In my paper, I will consider two examples
from 2015 with Sartre by Mathilde
Ramadier and Anaïs Depommier and Glenn
Gould, une vie à contretemps by Sandrine Revel, which illustrate the
graphic and narrative possibilities of the ninth art more (Glenn Gould) or less (Sartre)
convincingly.