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François Rivière and Benoît Mouchart: “Hergé has become a classic”

2023-03-19T17:50:24.301Z


INTERVIEW – The specialists in the adventures of Tintin and Snowy explain in their invigorating intimate Hergé essay how the work is more current than ever.


As soon as we start talking with Benoît Mouchart and François Rivière, authors of the excellent

Hergé

Intime

essay (Éditions Bouquins), which has just been reissued in a revised and expanded version, we realize that the work of 'Hergé (1907-1983) is inexhaustible.

Around the world, no less than 4 million albums (including 1.5 million in French) of the adventures of Tintin and Snowy are sold each year, translated into more than one hundred and twenty languages.

How to explain the incredible modernity of this saga in comics?

Writer, editorial director at Casterman, Benoît Mouchart joined forces with his friend François Rivière, prolific screenwriter and biographer of Agatha Christie, to answer this intriguing question.

LE FIGARO.

- Georges Remi, said Hergé, disappeared forty years ago.

How do you measure the sustainability of your work?

Benoit MOUCHART.

- Since 1976 and the release of

Tintin and the Picaros

, no new album of the adventures of the famous hero has been published.

Yet we keep talking...

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Source: lefigaro

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