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Jean-Christophe Buisson: "Sylvain Tesson, black suits him so well"

2022-05-20T04:28:46.390Z


CHRONICLE - Representing death in drawings without being morbid: this is what the writer succeeds in his collection. Black, but not dark.


A man hanging from a sunbeam;

another whose body dangles lifelessly above a woman reading a farewell letter on which is written

“my love, when you read this letter, I will not be far away”

 ;

four other bodies extinguished and embraced by nooses which descend from the branches of a tree on which the sign

“complete”

appears  ;

a living fellow who buys a rope from a saleswoman asking him if

"is it to offer?"

.

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and the author of the book "Vive la vie!"

about to do the same by discovering its sales figures.

You really have to be called Sylvain Tesson to succeed, through black drawings, in making a macabre subject - death - as funny as a sketch by Gaspard Proust or a tirade by Pierre Desproges.

The writer-adventurer certainly has an undeniable legitimacy to evoke the camarde.

He has been seeing her closely for decades.

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Source: lefigaro

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