碎片人

by Marion Fayolle

视觉诗歌，纸上默剧，人性寓言

法国超人气艺术家玛丽昂·法约尔代表作

当代两性关系的图像隐喻

玛丽昂·法约尔的作品被称作“视觉诗歌”。像诗一样，读者可以跳跃地阅读，并为每个诗篇赋予自己的阐释。

男人在照镜子，女人用石块击碎镜子，镜子外的人也一同破碎……《碎片人》是一本几乎完全无字的图像小说，用纯净、精美的画面捕捉了人性中的复杂纽带，是充满想象的哑剧，是优美的芭蕾片段，时而有趣，时而尖锐，性感、纯真，富有哲学意味。法约尔笔下的角色美丽而沉默，通过肢体语言，演绎着爱情和失落，激情和背叛，渴望和欲望。即使只为欣赏精美的画面而翻阅，也难免留下甜蜜和忧伤。

作者自述：“我的角色是沉默的。他们是物体。他们可以像玻璃花瓶一样破碎，像蜡烛一样被吹灭；像谜题一样留有悬念；像蛋糕一样被切开；像盆栽植物一样浇水……他们是玩具，体现想法和概念的谦卑的木偶。他们成为寓言和隐喻。他们没有声音，没有名字，没有过去，他们与自己的身体交谈，提出关于事物的疯狂理论。”

特别提示：本书不是为孩子绘制的童书绘本，仅适合成年人阅读。

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Art, Poetry, Graphic Novels Comics

64 pages, Hardcover

First published October 21, 2011

About the author

Née le 4 mai 1988, Marion Fayolle grandit en Ardèche et intègre l'école des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg en 2006 et obtient son diplôme en juin 2011.
C'est au sein de l'atelier d'illustration qu'elle rencontre Matthias Malingrey et Simon Roussin avec lesquels elle fonde en 2009 la revue Nyctalope. Son premier livre, L'homme en pièces, vient de paraître aux éditions Michel Lagarde. Il s'agit d'un recueil d'histoires sans paroles, d'un ensemble de petits numéros aux ambiances poétiques et décalées dans lesquels les parents arrosent leurs enfants comme des plantes et les femmes allument les hommes comme des bougies.
Elle travaille également pour l'édition jeunesse et la presse : revue XXI, Paris mômes...

Reviews

[Dave Schaafsma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nobrow produced this lovely book of Fayolle's wordless/silent stories focused on relationships between men and women. Often funny, often surreal, these are panel-less stories set on oversized white backgrounds, elegantly drawn and attractively colored. These are wonderful, something that feels new and fresh and insightful.

Here you can look at some images from the book:

https://www.google.com/search?q=mario...

A review from Maria Popova so you can see some of the actual stories, too:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03...

[Evan Pulgino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gorgeous, thoughtful, short, wordless comics. An artist I'll be keeping my eye on.

[Kate Green · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wordless storytelling of crazy ideas, like the roll away cat, and the halved children.

[Jadown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Une fantaisie absurde à la fois séduisante et grinçante, mais je n'ai pas été convaincue et touchée par tous les scénarios.

[Julls · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't quite know what I was looking at for all of these. But I liked the ones I did.

[P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

in a bare background fayolle conjures up imaginative vignettes. everyone looks almost the same, but some characters reappear - one of my favorites is a sad gag about a woman who has roll-up companions. like dzama and darger, these characters have a quality of being a step above cutouts - like they were once old time picture book characters who developed personalities. their nudity is simultaneously charming/blase and tinged with sexual tension. I wouldn't have minded some words, just to hear what these people have to say, but it's hard to beat good wordless work in sequential art.

[Oliver Hodson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was like walking through a little gallery, especially as the comics were without speech. A very pleasant experiment. Solitude, the suitors/mirror/fragments series, and sculpture->grave series were super interesting. It was amazing how she could tell stories and make points in the confines of her conception, or outside the confines of 'normal' comics. Lively book!

[Maddy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was very unique and I really adored it. Also, I learnt that 'poser un lapin' ('to place a rabbit') equates to 'to stand someone up'. C'est fantastique!

[Krithika Sukumar]

Interesting so far! Every story is a treat and one that leaves you thinking long after you turned the page.

[Brigitte · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant.

[Brian Spath · Rating 3 out of 5]

Clever, but juvenile at times.