49th International Philological Conference (IPC 2020) in Homage to Professor Ludmila Verbitskaya (1936-2019)

Biofiction in actual french graphic novels

Шарлотт Краусс
Докладчик
доцент
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.