With a mischievous, slightly caustic stroke of the pencil, Soledad Bravi depicts literary monuments of eloquence in comic strips.
They might have a taste of déjà vu, it gives them back all their shine.
In a few strokes, we have the greatness of soul of a Cyrano, the gravity of a Simone Veil, the flame of an Albert Camus paying homage to his teacher.
The characters of this all-terrain illustrator - from children's literature to the pages of
Elle magazine -
are little tornadoes of energy.
The book was co-written with literature teacher Candice Zolynski and lawyer Romain Boulet.
It's a burst of freshness that makes you want to reread Aragon, Hugo, Rostand... An anthology of selected speeches.
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Move to convince
The boards open with cool colors.
Dragée blue, for Simone Veil at the National Assembly.
Verdigris for Badinter:
“Tomorrow, thanks to you, French justice will no longer be a justice that kills.”
The minister's arguments are detailed one by one.
Also included are the humanist speech by astronomer Carl Sagan, inviting us to take care of our planet, and Dominique de Villepin's plea not to intervene in Iraq in 2003.
...Or to seduce
Aragon's declaration of love to Elsa,
"Give me your hands for worry"
, becomes the text of all the uncertainties of feeling.
That of Cyrano to Roxane by Edmond Rostand, with all his scruples.
The authors also chose the cynical good sense of Perdican opposite Camille in
Alfred de Musset's
“We don't kid with love” :
“I suffered often, I was wrong sometimes, but I loved.
It is I who lived, and not an artificial being created by my pride and my boredom.
Finally, another classic: Carmen's love song in Bizet's opera,
“Love is a Rebel Bird”
.
Among the twenty speeches, we find Cyrano's declaration of love to Roxane, said by Christian.
“The most eloquent speeches”
, Le Robert, March 7, 2024.
Poverty, fascism or guns: those who denounce
It is smoke-colored blue that is chosen for Victor Hugo's speech on poverty.
Nothing is left to chance.
“Imagine these courtyards that they call courtyards, squeezed between high hovels, dark, damp, icy, mephitic, full of stagnant miasmas, cluttered with rubbish, the cesspools next to the wells,” proclaims
the writer, more alive than ever.
We also find Martin Luther King, against racism, and Dolores Ibarruri, against fascism.
The authors also rely on lesser-known, but equally striking, speeches: Emma Gonzales's speech in Washington during the
“March For Our Lives”
demonstration in 2018 is one of them.
Gentle or direct handling
The authors also chose fictional speeches.
Therefore, we will not be surprised that Daenerys Targaryen, the heroine of the
Game of Thrones
series who sets out here to free the slaves
,
rubs shoulders with the Viscount de Valmont and the Marquise de Tourvel, the diabolical tandem of
Dangerous Liaisons
.
We even find… Don Draper's advertising “pitch” in the series “Mad Men” which confuses to sell.
Both manage to manipulate.
It's just a matter of showing how, which the authors do brilliantly.
The most eloquent speeches
Soledad Bravi, Le Robert