As well start right away with a personal note probably brighten, the flatness of my comment, I never read comics. That was wrong, I know, and many of my friends encourage me but it is so. This time, I was totally overwhelmed and literally! The first story, that of a deserter from 17, one of those who are mutilated to escape the absurd butchery. Paul Grappe, that's his name, is found in Paris with her friend Louise, forced into hiding to escape his fate, since no quarter was given with deserters in time when life poor wretches worth nothing but contempt. To escape confinement in a hotel room in Paul travestira wife, little hand before becoming some fantasies later in that time we used to call the "Roaring Twenties", a queen of the night the Bois de Boulogne. Paul will come back to life "trivial" ... More than the story, the characters are extremely well drawn with their cracks, their frustrations, their beauty, history that exceeds and overrides what. War, Freedom, celebrity, love, broken destinies the wasted lives, a strange and tragic love story. "Farewell life, goodbye love, Farewell all women It is well finished, is forever From this infamous war we are all doomed We sacrificed" said Song Craonne that haunted me when reading . No one escapes it. I realize that I have spoken of this book as a novel, and it is a great and beautiful novel, but it's a bit more than that. For there was the drawing! And what talent! Each page deserves and attracts attention, it's beautiful, it's sensual, it's sensible. A talent that knows we dive into the horror of war, brush femininity finger forfeiture, it's beautiful and burning bright comics, I'm going to start this time, for sure!
