The daughter of the screenwriter of the famous Asterix comics, Anne Goscinny, has revealed the discovery of an unfinished draft of the most famous of the Gauls made by her father before his death, in an interview published this weekend.
"I often think about it, it's 20 pages, half an album,"
said the one who manages her father's work to the German weekly
Der Spiegel
.
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The screenplay typed in by René Goscinny bears the title of
Asterix in the Circus
and should have appeared chronologically after the
Asterix
album
among the Belgians
.
It was found according to the
Spiegel
in the family archives.
Anne Goscinny felt that a posthumous finish of the album would be a
"very complicated"
undertaking
.
“Many, many people should sit around the table, immerse themselves in the story and find her voice
,” she said, referring to her father.
It's like a painting by Goya that has a hole ”
.
“But one day we will try, it would be an extraordinary adventure
,
” she
adds.
Died in 1977, René Goscinny is with Albert Uderzo, who died last year, the creator of the irreducible Gaul in 1959, whose adventures have sold several hundred million copies worldwide.
He was instrumental in creating the profession of comic book writer, which did not exist before him.
