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Le Sommeil du monstre #3
Rendez-vous à Paris
Les dix témoins de la « révélation » du Site de l’Aigle se sont tous mystérieusement volatilisés, non sans mentionner un étrange rendez vous, le 32 décembre... Optus Warhole n’est plus.
Dans ce contexte chamboulé, où tous les repères semblent s’estomper, Leyla Mirkovic erre au cœur de l’hiver de Belgrade, hantée par le souvenir de Nike Hatzfeld. Pendant ce temps, dans la région des Balkans, Amir et Sacha se sont mariés. Le titre Rendez-vous à Paris indiquerait donc que la quête de Nike, sa promesse de reconstituer le trio d’orphelins Sarajevo 1993, est sur le point de se réaliser... ? A moins d’un quatrième et dernier acte...
Dans ce contexte chamboulé, où tous les repères semblent s’estomper, Leyla Mirkovic erre au cœur de l’hiver de Belgrade, hantée par le souvenir de Nike Hatzfeld. Pendant ce temps, dans la région des Balkans, Amir et Sacha se sont mariés. Le titre Rendez-vous à Paris indiquerait donc que la quête de Nike, sa promesse de reconstituer le trio d’orphelins Sarajevo 1993, est sur le point de se réaliser... ? A moins d’un quatrième et dernier acte...
68 pages, Hardcover
First published May 3, 2006
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About the author
Enki Bilal
243 books314 followersEnki Bilal (born Enes Bilal) is a French comic book creator and film director.
Bilal was born in Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, to a Czech mother, Ana, who came to Belgrade as child from Karlovy Vary, and a Bosnian Muslim father, Muhamed Hamo Bilal who had been Josip Broz Tito's tailor. When he was five years old, his father managed to take a trip and stay in Paris as a political émigré. Enki and the rest of the family followed him, four years later.
Enki Bilal has no sense of belonging to any ethnic group and religion, nor is he obsessed with soil and roots. He said in one interview: "I also feel Bosnian by my father's origin, a Serb by my place of birth and a Croat by my relationship with a certain friends, not to mention my other Czech half, who I am inherited from mother".
At age 14, he met René Goscinny and with his encouragement applied his talent to comics. He produced work for Goscinny's Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote in the 1970s, publishing his first story, Le Bol Maudit, in 1972.
In 1975, Bilal began working with script writer Pierre Christin on a series of dark and surreal tales, resulting in the body of work titled Légendes d'Aujourd'hui.
He is best known for the Nikopol trilogy (La Foire aux immortels, La Femme piège and Froid Équateur), which took more than a decade to complete. Bilal wrote the script and did the artwork. The final chapter, Froid Équateur, was chosen book of the year by the magazine Lire and is acknowledged by the inventor of chess boxing as the inspiration for the sport.
Quatre? (2007), the last book in the Hatzfeld tetralogy, deals with the breakup of Yugoslavia from a future viewpoint. The first installment came in 1998 in the shape of Le Sommeil du Monstre opening with the main character, Nike, remembering the war in a series of traumatic flashbacks.
In 2012, Bilal was featured in a solo exhibition at The Louvre. The exhibition, titled "The Ghosts of the Louvre", ran from 20 December 2012 to 18 March 2013. The exhibition was organized by Fabrice Douar, and featured a series of paintings of "Ghosts", done atop photographs that Bilal took of the Louvre's collection.
Bilal was born in Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, to a Czech mother, Ana, who came to Belgrade as child from Karlovy Vary, and a Bosnian Muslim father, Muhamed Hamo Bilal who had been Josip Broz Tito's tailor. When he was five years old, his father managed to take a trip and stay in Paris as a political émigré. Enki and the rest of the family followed him, four years later.
Enki Bilal has no sense of belonging to any ethnic group and religion, nor is he obsessed with soil and roots. He said in one interview: "I also feel Bosnian by my father's origin, a Serb by my place of birth and a Croat by my relationship with a certain friends, not to mention my other Czech half, who I am inherited from mother".
At age 14, he met René Goscinny and with his encouragement applied his talent to comics. He produced work for Goscinny's Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote in the 1970s, publishing his first story, Le Bol Maudit, in 1972.
In 1975, Bilal began working with script writer Pierre Christin on a series of dark and surreal tales, resulting in the body of work titled Légendes d'Aujourd'hui.
He is best known for the Nikopol trilogy (La Foire aux immortels, La Femme piège and Froid Équateur), which took more than a decade to complete. Bilal wrote the script and did the artwork. The final chapter, Froid Équateur, was chosen book of the year by the magazine Lire and is acknowledged by the inventor of chess boxing as the inspiration for the sport.
Quatre? (2007), the last book in the Hatzfeld tetralogy, deals with the breakup of Yugoslavia from a future viewpoint. The first installment came in 1998 in the shape of Le Sommeil du Monstre opening with the main character, Nike, remembering the war in a series of traumatic flashbacks.
In 2012, Bilal was featured in a solo exhibition at The Louvre. The exhibition, titled "The Ghosts of the Louvre", ran from 20 December 2012 to 18 March 2013. The exhibition was organized by Fabrice Douar, and featured a series of paintings of "Ghosts", done atop photographs that Bilal took of the Louvre's collection.
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June 4, 2025
dummere end de to før.
December 12, 2017
Wonderful graphics, storyline just weird
January 28, 2018
Weird, wonderful, beautiful.
Enki Bilal is a gorgeous find.
Enki Bilal is a gorgeous find.
June 2, 2020
Oblique and with an edge to it, this book is less violent than the previous ones. The characters seem to be waiting for the next book. Nice soccer scenes though.
August 9, 2020
Un tome un peu plus confus que les précédents, j'ai eu du mal à rentrer dedans
February 14, 2021
Difficile de critiquer une BD d'Enki Bilal après une première lecture alors que l'auteur se complait dans les scenarii les plus obscurs. Comme pour les 2 premiers tomes je n'ai pas tout compris mais en plus ici j'ai trouvé qu'on avançait à rien, se perdant dans les mouches, les personnages et leurs cyborgs sans nouveau thème majeur, le passage sur les équipes de foot religieuses à double ballon et danse classique ne m'a pas convaincu malgré son originalité. Reste la beauté plastique du coup de pinceau, hypnotique.
December 13, 2020
Big disappointment after part two... In previous part we were introduced to art and now comes football :) but it is a mess, really.
(po ponovnom čitanju)
Ostajem pri istom utisku. Priča se dalje rasplinjuje, Bilal uvodi nove likove dok su glavni junaci u dodatnim problemima, a radnja se širi ka Marsu dok su potpuno zanemarene dimenzione kapije. Pri svemu tome kraj stiže previše naglo. Šteta...
(po ponovnom čitanju)
Ostajem pri istom utisku. Priča se dalje rasplinjuje, Bilal uvodi nove likove dok su glavni junaci u dodatnim problemima, a radnja se širi ka Marsu dok su potpuno zanemarene dimenzione kapije. Pri svemu tome kraj stiže previše naglo. Šteta...
May 4, 2013
La suite des aventures de nos trois héros, Warhole et le mal absolu, Nike gangrainé par la réincarnation de Warhole, l'amarsissage (sur Mars) et le jeu des doubles et repliques... Superbe histoire, dessins époustouflants.
May 25, 2012
Dopo i fuochi d'artificio del primo e, soprattutto, del secondo atto, qui il ritmo si affloscia e la sceneggiatura prende una strana tangente...
January 28, 2014
Komeita kuvia, mutta voi jeesus miten sekeva pökäle tämä oli. Varmasti taidetta.
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