Existentialist Comics «Bande Dessinée» and the Art of Ethics |
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| Series edited by:
| Azérad, Hugo
Schmid, Marion |
| Author:
| Benjamin, Elizabeth |
| Series title: | European Connections Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-80079-273-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2021 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $71.10 |
Book Description:
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This book explores the historical and artistic value of three bande dessinée (BD), French-language comics, that depict the lives of Existentialist thinkers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus. The work is the first to analyse biographical BD through the lens of Existentialism, offering a new theory of reading biographical comics.
This book explores the historical and artistic value of three bande dessinée (BD), French-language comics, that depict the lives of Existentialist thinkers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus. The work is the first to analyse biographical BD through the lens of Existentialism, offering a new theory of reading biographical comics.