Cinq Contes

by Posy Simmonds, Lili Sztajn (translator)

Cinq contes soigneusement choisis parmi la dizaine que Posy Simmonds, Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême 2024, a publié entre 1987 et 2004. Cinq contes retraduits ou inédits en France, comme autant de ' Classiques instantanés ', qui constituent le prélude à sa carrière mondiale de romancière graphique. Cinq contes pour enfants, mais assez bons pour que les adultes les lisent. Et y prennent le plus grand plaisir.

146 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 20, 2024

About the author

Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE is a British newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she has drawn the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books. Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both of the published books feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the 18th- and 19th-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.