For six years, Riad Sattouf has followed the daily life of a young girl in "Les Cahiers d'Esther", whose new volume, the sixth, was released on Thursday.
Esther is now 15 years old and an unexpected and cumbersome host has just come into her life: the coronavirus.
Tom (12 years old) 5th, Paris.
“I discovered Esther with my two older sisters! She looks like them a little by her side bitch. I love it because it really represents the life of teenagers even if we see that she does not know the colleges of the working-class neighborhoods. At home, in the 20th arrondissement in Paris, there are fewer fights than in all of his albums! Even if she is sometimes anti-boys and she plays it a bit, it is really a great comic. On the Covid, that was really it. We were very happy to not have classes at the beginning and at the end we were too happy to go back to college! "
Lily (13 years old) 5th, Paris.
"Esther, I love her, she's funny and lots of things happen to her."
So, I sometimes find my life mundane!
Everything is believable and you can really identify with her.
We also find our parents in the comics!
I really laughed seeing his father stressed with the mask and the Covid because I thought of my mother.
Or when her parents threaten to take her cell phone, it's the same with me!
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Alice 15 years old, 3rd, Vannes (Morbihan).
“I have never felt so close to her. We laughed with my parents while reading it because we experienced exactly the same thing for the evening of my 15th birthday. My father was so freaked out about the beer… I find Esther to be very fair when she questions our future, politics, injustices. Even though she lives in Paris, that she is a good student, we have all experienced the same confinement. It has changed a lot of things in our relationships with others and she explains it well! "
Christine Malrieu, literature teacher in Paris.
“Esther is an endearing and funny character.
In some ways, I find my students on the desire to take sides for everything but also a certain form of egocentrism.
I felt in many students his fear after confinement of a return to a more "normal" life.
On the other hand, I do not recognize myself at all in her relationship with the teachers, nor with the one she sends back in her ropes during a video course, nor with the one who insults her at the end… ”
A plate of volume 6 of "Cahiers d'Esther", the heroine of Riad Sattouf.
Riad Sattouf / Allary Editions
Jérôme Trinssoutrop, plastic arts teacher in Paris.
“She's more of a chic girl, positive, with great values, who puts herself a little too much pressure sometimes but it is the lot of good students. She is also very discreet on this point. I have noticed that manga is not at all present in Esther's world although they are essential in college. Moreover, his stories are rather intimate, in any case not those that one tells his teacher, or rarely. Suddenly, I no longer find my daughter there ... "
