Edit Le Portrait
Last edited 02:28, 5th November 2009
by Stephen Betts (thisisstephenbetts)
by Stephen Betts (thisisstephenbetts)
Le Portrait
(The Portrait)
- Creator: Edmond Baudoin
- Publisher: L'Association
- Published on: 1997-01-01
- ISBN: 2909020851
About This Book
Another early classic by Baudoin, to sit alongside Le Voyage, translated earlier this year by Derik Badman. Essentially, as far as I can tell so far, it is the story of a somewhat troubled artist and his relationship with his beautiful, and much younger, model.
Translation
_[No page numbers – first page of comics is page 1]_
Page 2
Panel 1
[Indecipherable]
Panel 2
The Universe inflates, a demented balloon… Venice sinks irreperably… The march of death, of life… at the centre of the storm, the man dreams only of the perpetual, only of always, of never, of all my life…
Panel 3
...the imbecile.
Comments
"I think it's one of Baudoin's finest works. He returns to the themes of this book again and again, but sets them up here in some style. C..."
Nick Abadzis
- 02:39 02|02|10
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