Michel Houellebecq adapted into comics: “It feels like Blake and Mortimer”

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", pure Michel Houellebecq in the text.

This is how the novelist, guest on RTL, commented on his style of writing and also the graphic novel adaptation of his Goncourt prize,

released in bookstores in 2010. The writer must think that the work of the architect Louis Jaillard, whose originality resembles his own, deserved for once to deviate from the rule he had set himself of no longer submitting to the exercise of promotion, an imposed media figure that he doesn't like.

The variation of the drawings, the alternation of colors, the expressive palette of Louis Paillard borrowed from indisputable masters such as the comic book artist John Prentice, or also Hergé, Mœbius, and again the painters Peter Doig and Raymond Pettibon, delighted the heightened sensitivity of Michel Houellebecq.

From the start of the interview granted to RTL, the author of Elementary Particles admits it in his own way, with whispered words and phrases: “

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Read alsoThe Map and the Territory of Houellebecq adapted into a graphic novel by Louis Paillard

Faced with this new form of expression of his art as a novelist, Michel Houellebecq now knows that he has, with Louis Paillard at the drawing, a new string to his bow.

Could we soon see adaptations of

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It now seems very likely as the writer himself suggests: "

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Meanwhile, the art of the graphic novel tickles the eye of Goncourt 2010. Seduced by the work of Louis Paillard, he, as an informed collector, wanted to keep the genesis of this Map and the

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His choice will have been particularly eclectic, some would say Houellebecquien: “

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