Les Frustres [French]

by Claire Bretécher

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2266019341
• ISBN13: 9782266019347
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Pocket
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a comic writer of genius

These are the most perceptive, hilarious, and titillating comics that I have ever seen. I bought these in French, and studied the language - it is the best portrait of the Parisian intelligencia and middle class that I know, at least for the 1970s. There are snapshots of life in here that are so intimate, so crazy, so realistic and yet full of satire, that they live in my mind as only the greatest writer can accomplish. So much of it is an instant of dialogue (looking through the calender at what days are vacations; a chance meeting in a restaurant), a few seconds of someone as they get through the day (trying to put in contact lenses, stepping in dog mess), a scene in a couple's life (a quickie while watching TV, fantansies of breaking up) - the list could go on and on. Yet these images stick with me as I get through my day, like the freelancer who submits somethign to an editor, who appears sympathetic and then puts her work right in the garbage after saying, "I can't promise anything..." It is truly brilliant stuff, from a maladjusted observer and incredible artist of the mundane. And each panel contains the most deliciious ironies, a comic perspective that thrusts everything into perspective at the end. Bretecher is as good as Robert Crumb.