Mat

by Edmond Baudoin

Mat est un garçon solitaire. Chaque jour il doit faire face à un père raciste qui le rejette et ne cesse de lui raconter des souvenirs insoutenables de la guerre d'Algérie. Pour fuir cette triste existence, il trouve refuge dans ses rêves. Sa rencontre avec Élodie, petite fille en mal d'affection, va lui donner la force d'affronter son père et de sortir de sa souffrance.

Genres: Bande Dessinée

115 pages, Paperback

First published June 2, 1996

About the author

Edmond Baudoin is an artist, illustrator, and writer of sequential art and graphic novels. Baudoin left school at the age of 16 and went into military service. He later worked as an accountant at the Palace de Nice (L’Hôtel Plaza). At 33, he left the accountant trade to pursue drawing. Baudoin was an art professor from 1999 to 2003 at the University of Quebec

Reviews

[Mahatma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Een zware last om te dragen voor zo’n jong kind, maar hij draagt ze met verve.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

A graphic novel about Mat. Mat has a difficult relationship with his handicapped father. Mat plays football with the Arabs of the "quartier", his father claims he was handicapped by being shot in the war in Algeria. Mat escapes into a dream world and in the novel he takes Elodie, a black girl, who he finds crying to his dream world. Mat also frequents a cabin in the hills where he tends an injured eagle. The drawings are in black and white and the book takes less than an hour to read from cover to cover but it is worth the trip.