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Paul #6
A Canção de Roland
Roland e Lisette, os sogros de paul, se mudam para Quebec para aproveitar sua aposentadoria, mas pouco tempo depois, Roland adoece. Batizado pela mídia de "Tintin do Quebec", Paul é o alter ego de Michel Rabagliati, um dos maiores nomes dos quadrinhos canadenses contemporâneos.
Em a canção de Roland, seu primeiro álbum publicado em português, o autor compartilha uma história pessoal e comovente sobre a perda de um ente querido e a importância da família.
A trama reflete ainda sobre as mudanças e as incertezas trazidas pelo novo milênio, e discute questões políticas como a independência do Quebec e a desilusão coletiva pós-referendo de 1995.
Vencedor do prêmio do público do festival de Angoulême em 2010, além do prêmio Doug Wright de melhor livro, a canção de Roland valeu a Rabagliati o prêmio Joe Shuster de melhor autor.
Em a canção de Roland, seu primeiro álbum publicado em português, o autor compartilha uma história pessoal e comovente sobre a perda de um ente querido e a importância da família.
A trama reflete ainda sobre as mudanças e as incertezas trazidas pelo novo milênio, e discute questões políticas como a independência do Quebec e a desilusão coletiva pós-referendo de 1995.
Vencedor do prêmio do público do festival de Angoulême em 2010, além do prêmio Doug Wright de melhor livro, a canção de Roland valeu a Rabagliati o prêmio Joe Shuster de melhor autor.
192 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
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March 23, 2016
Rabagliati is a Montreal-based cartoonist and graphic designer who has been making these autobiographical comics for several years about a guy not named Michael, but Paul. I have been reading them very piecemeal, off and on, whenever one wanders into my library system. My system has five of them, so you can see what it is like to read the (semi)-autobiography of Michel Rabagliati. He also writes in French, with what I might call European sensibilities, so while he is a sensation along the lines of Hergé (Tintin) in French-speaking Canada, he is much less known here.
This present volume was published originally in French (as they all are) as Paul à Québec in 2009, they take their sweet-assed European time getting translated, there's no hurry, we have two hour lunches to take, we have wine and espresso to get through and we need to read the Montreal papers throughly with the wine and coffee . . . and then, is there any interest in the U. S.? Can we find a publisher that even wants to invest in art/memoir comics where little happens?
So it's like all great European comics, it's 2012 before it gets published in English with a different title. In 2013 it arrives in my library system, in a library twenty miles from my house and it looks like I am the first person to crack this book 3 years later! Doesn't it feel like some story out of Nanook of the North or something, one of a lonely writer's lonely text read by one lonely old guy in Chicago? And this guy is freaking FAMOUS in French Canada, he's the Canadian TinTin!
This particular missive from the Great White North is about Roland, Paul's father-in-law, his life and dying and death, a biography that would seem to be a gift for his family, especially his wife and his one daughter who is almost silent and hardly a character throughout who emerges evocatively as a quiet character whose silent image--wearing grandpa's cap--concludes the book.
The Song of Roland, by a different author, is something English majors might have encountered in a Survey of British Literature course, maybe, though it is French, an epic poem of 11th century heroic deeds. It is the first and most outstanding example of chanson de geste, and the oldest surviving work of French literature. Themes include Chivalry, rules of battle, nurture & companionage, horses & swords, and so on.
French-Canadian Rabagliati's Song of Roland is sort of anti-epic, mock-heroic, about a regular guy who had a terrible upbringing, miraculously survived the streets to become a corporate executive, raised a few "rabbits" (what he calls his three daughters, and grandkids) and liked to play cards. Half of the book documents family get-togethers and Roland telling his life story to Paul, and the second half is about his cancer and dying and death. All feels familiar and NOT heroic. The art and story chronicle an everyman's life, as do all of the Paul stories. There are no trumpets announcing the arrival of a King. This is middle-class life, often without incident, told "without self-loathing" (I seem to recall that phrase from a blurb) as you get usually in memoir comics. You also have to go through 70-80 pages of Roland's slow dying, so don't look for a lot of laughs, but it has a sweetness to it. This memorializes what all humans have to do on this planet, as far as I can tell.
The Song of Roland features wonderfully done artwork, simple and maybe a touch sentimental in moments, but also committed to the every day. My favorite parts are the silent pages, that lift the narrative to poetry, like the breathtaking several page conclusion featuring Paul's daughter visiting Roland's gravesite and herself being visited by the ghost of Roland! (Sorry, spoiler, but as I am one of the few people who has even read this book in English--if you can trust Goodreads, and you can't--I have this feeling I am talking to 6 or 7 of us. . . .:)) Join us! I strongly recommend! But not for superhero escapes from life. This is slice of life comics. IN life, very much so.
This present volume was published originally in French (as they all are) as Paul à Québec in 2009, they take their sweet-assed European time getting translated, there's no hurry, we have two hour lunches to take, we have wine and espresso to get through and we need to read the Montreal papers throughly with the wine and coffee . . . and then, is there any interest in the U. S.? Can we find a publisher that even wants to invest in art/memoir comics where little happens?
So it's like all great European comics, it's 2012 before it gets published in English with a different title. In 2013 it arrives in my library system, in a library twenty miles from my house and it looks like I am the first person to crack this book 3 years later! Doesn't it feel like some story out of Nanook of the North or something, one of a lonely writer's lonely text read by one lonely old guy in Chicago? And this guy is freaking FAMOUS in French Canada, he's the Canadian TinTin!
This particular missive from the Great White North is about Roland, Paul's father-in-law, his life and dying and death, a biography that would seem to be a gift for his family, especially his wife and his one daughter who is almost silent and hardly a character throughout who emerges evocatively as a quiet character whose silent image--wearing grandpa's cap--concludes the book.
The Song of Roland, by a different author, is something English majors might have encountered in a Survey of British Literature course, maybe, though it is French, an epic poem of 11th century heroic deeds. It is the first and most outstanding example of chanson de geste, and the oldest surviving work of French literature. Themes include Chivalry, rules of battle, nurture & companionage, horses & swords, and so on.
French-Canadian Rabagliati's Song of Roland is sort of anti-epic, mock-heroic, about a regular guy who had a terrible upbringing, miraculously survived the streets to become a corporate executive, raised a few "rabbits" (what he calls his three daughters, and grandkids) and liked to play cards. Half of the book documents family get-togethers and Roland telling his life story to Paul, and the second half is about his cancer and dying and death. All feels familiar and NOT heroic. The art and story chronicle an everyman's life, as do all of the Paul stories. There are no trumpets announcing the arrival of a King. This is middle-class life, often without incident, told "without self-loathing" (I seem to recall that phrase from a blurb) as you get usually in memoir comics. You also have to go through 70-80 pages of Roland's slow dying, so don't look for a lot of laughs, but it has a sweetness to it. This memorializes what all humans have to do on this planet, as far as I can tell.
The Song of Roland features wonderfully done artwork, simple and maybe a touch sentimental in moments, but also committed to the every day. My favorite parts are the silent pages, that lift the narrative to poetry, like the breathtaking several page conclusion featuring Paul's daughter visiting Roland's gravesite and herself being visited by the ghost of Roland! (Sorry, spoiler, but as I am one of the few people who has even read this book in English--if you can trust Goodreads, and you can't--I have this feeling I am talking to 6 or 7 of us. . . .:)) Join us! I strongly recommend! But not for superhero escapes from life. This is slice of life comics. IN life, very much so.
July 19, 2022
Ce livre mérite tous les bons mots qu'il récolte. L'auteur rend attachants des personnages qui ne le sont pas toujours à prime abord grâce à sa sensibilité. C'est beau. C'est vrai. C'est un livre qui laisse son empreinte en nous. Bravo master Rabagliati.
December 3, 2017
Il s’agissait de mon premier Paul. J’ai vu le film avant de lire la bande dessinée et j’avais adoré l’histoire. Il m’a donc été impossible de ne pas me jeter sur la BD, que j’ai tout autant adorée. Dans la première partie, j’ai ri à plus d’une reprise alors qu’à la fin, j’avais les larmes aux yeux. Des souvenirs racontés tout doucement pour bien rendre un moment par lequel plusieurs familles doivent passer un jour ou l’autre.
January 6, 2023
Another fantastic Paul volume.
This was originally published in Quebec as Paul à Québec and was adapted into a movie of the same title. For some reason they decided to change the title, which is a shame because I like the original and loyalty to Quebec vs Canada does get addressed a bit in the book. The original also matches all the other Paul books. But its a small complaint.
I actually watched the movie before reading this. The movie was quite good, and follows the comic pretty closely although the character of Paul doesn't quite line up with the one I have in my head as I read the comics. As the comic is now out of print and was slightly difficult to track down. I ended up getting a used library book from Abebooks.
Paul is now married and has a young child. He goes out to visit his parents-in-law, the titular Roland is his father-in-law who becomes the focus of the book as his health worsens. Later Roland and his wife move into the city, and eventually Roland moves into palliative care.
It's a beautiful meditation on letting go.
As with all of Rabagliati's comics, this is just top notch cartooning with some very detailed backgrounds and settings. It's a fully realized world with characters that must be real.
This was originally published in Quebec as Paul à Québec and was adapted into a movie of the same title. For some reason they decided to change the title, which is a shame because I like the original and loyalty to Quebec vs Canada does get addressed a bit in the book. The original also matches all the other Paul books. But its a small complaint.
I actually watched the movie before reading this. The movie was quite good, and follows the comic pretty closely although the character of Paul doesn't quite line up with the one I have in my head as I read the comics. As the comic is now out of print and was slightly difficult to track down. I ended up getting a used library book from Abebooks.
Paul is now married and has a young child. He goes out to visit his parents-in-law, the titular Roland is his father-in-law who becomes the focus of the book as his health worsens. Later Roland and his wife move into the city, and eventually Roland moves into palliative care.
It's a beautiful meditation on letting go.
As with all of Rabagliati's comics, this is just top notch cartooning with some very detailed backgrounds and settings. It's a fully realized world with characters that must be real.
May 10, 2022
Le meilleur Paul que j'ai lu jusqu'à maintenant.
April 13, 2018
Le dernier Paul qu'il me restait à lire.
Il m'a beaucoup émue. Encore une fois les dessins étaient simples, mais efficaces.
Une histoire à lire !
Il m'a beaucoup émue. Encore une fois les dessins étaient simples, mais efficaces.
Une histoire à lire !
September 18, 2016
Je suis touchés par ce merveilleux roman. C'était émouvant et très réaliste comme histoire. Chapeau!
September 11, 2021
Excellent Paul. Plusieurs étapes importantes d’une vie dans cette petite BD. De belles scènes, touchant, bien fait, j’ai franchement adoré. Peut-être un peu léger dans les 30-40 premières pages, mais c’est seulement si on cherche du négatif bien fort!
September 12, 2013
I love all of the Paul books - they're some of my favorite comics, something I eagerly look forward to the next translated volume of. I love the clear line style, and the bittersweet union of nostalgic reminiscences about the past and honest slices of modern life. They're all touching in a very enjoyable way, but this one got to me far more - I was moved to tears more than once, and while attempting to read the final pages I had to put the book down several times to collect myself to keep going. Maybe it's my current mental state, or my secret and mostly concealed concerns about my own aging parents, or just the quality of the work here that evoked this, but it affected me more than most graphic works ever have. Very powerful, very moving. I realize the odds are slim, but if someone were to create something like this in memory of me after I die, I think I'd consider myself to have lived a worthwhile life.
But, just so no one thinks that emotion has overwhelmed the geek in me, I'll close with this - every other volume is in this series is called "Paul Does... Something" - "Paul Gets A Summer Job," "Paul Rides The Subway," "Paul Moves Out"... I believe that the original French-language version of this was called "Paul a Quebec." So, calling this "The Song of Roland" in English - I get the reference to the classic French poem about the great hero Roland, yes. But, how many of the English readers are familiar with that, as opposed the French-speaking readers? And when the rest of the series follows that same pattern of titling that this originally did, why deviate from it with this volume? I don't know - I'd just... rather this had been called "Paul In Quebec." I know that the content doesn't change with regards to the title, but I think that the impact of it in that context - as another chapter in the title character's life, showing the impact that someone close's life and death had on him - to me that might have been more appropriate.
But, just so no one thinks that emotion has overwhelmed the geek in me, I'll close with this - every other volume is in this series is called "Paul Does... Something" - "Paul Gets A Summer Job," "Paul Rides The Subway," "Paul Moves Out"... I believe that the original French-language version of this was called "Paul a Quebec." So, calling this "The Song of Roland" in English - I get the reference to the classic French poem about the great hero Roland, yes. But, how many of the English readers are familiar with that, as opposed the French-speaking readers? And when the rest of the series follows that same pattern of titling that this originally did, why deviate from it with this volume? I don't know - I'd just... rather this had been called "Paul In Quebec." I know that the content doesn't change with regards to the title, but I think that the impact of it in that context - as another chapter in the title character's life, showing the impact that someone close's life and death had on him - to me that might have been more appropriate.
March 10, 2023
N’importe quelle BD qui me fait pleurer mérite 5 étoiles
October 6, 2023
Encore une fois, Michel Rabagliati score fort dans mon cœur. Cette fois-ci, il aborde les soins de fin de vie. C’est si réaliste, si touchant, si humain.
Je construis l’univers de Paul une BD à la fois. Dans le désordre, peu importe. Chaque œuvre a sa place dans le tout. Non mais quel talent il a d’observer et de raconter des pans de sa vie (évidemment avec des aspects fictifs aussi). Comme dans un miroir, on s’y reconnaît souvent. Paul, c’est notre frère, notre père, notre oncle, notre fils.
Juste wow! ❤️
PS: J’ai adoré (et bien rigolé) quand il installe enfin l’internet sur son ordinateur. Clin d’œil au début 2000.
Je construis l’univers de Paul une BD à la fois. Dans le désordre, peu importe. Chaque œuvre a sa place dans le tout. Non mais quel talent il a d’observer et de raconter des pans de sa vie (évidemment avec des aspects fictifs aussi). Comme dans un miroir, on s’y reconnaît souvent. Paul, c’est notre frère, notre père, notre oncle, notre fils.
Juste wow! ❤️
PS: J’ai adoré (et bien rigolé) quand il installe enfin l’internet sur son ordinateur. Clin d’œil au début 2000.
February 12, 2021
Paul à Québec est un trésor! Michel Rabliati nous offre une œuvre qui célèbre ce qui les beaux moments en famille et qui met en vedette comment le soutien et l’amour est important en temps de crises. Y’a de vrai moment de joie et d’humour dans ce livre mais la fin ma fais pleurer et ma fendu le cœur.
March 1, 2022
Une énième relecture pour moi afin de le lire avec mes élèves. Toujours aussi magistral. Des rires, des larmes. Unique.
January 9, 2022
C’est décidément le meilleur « Paul » que j’ai lu. C’est très touchant. Tout est toujours dessiné avec tant de talent, finesse et intelligence, surtout. J’aime tellement ces BD!
November 23, 2022
Había leído algunos otros tomos de esta serie (Paul va a trabajar este verano, Paul se muda, Paul en el norte) y estaban bien, pero esta historia me resultó bellísima y muy conmovedora. Comienza describiendo los viajes y visitas del protagonista y su mujer (junto con sus hijos) a su suegro, quien se acaba de jubilar, y con quien nunca se sintió cómodo para tutearlo. Todo el tono de la historia cambia cuando descubren que el suegro está enfermo y lentamente empieza ser una historia sobre la aceptación, el duelo y cómo cambia la familia con un enfermo terminal. Desde detalles sobre los gestos que ayudan (el papá del protagonista visita sin decirles al suegro para animarle, la chica que va a tocar música para los enfermos, lo cansados que están todos y la vivencia del enfermo, que luego de estar enojadísimo y frustrado parece estar en paz con su terrible pasado, que cuenta por primera vez). Muy bella.
March 15, 2012
C'est enocore moi qui ai offert celui-ci à mon chum quand il est sorti. Ça m'a pris pas mal de temps pour me decider à le lire, je me le réservais pour un moment tranquille! J'ai vu mon chum pleurer en le lisant et quelques semaines plus tard j'ai vu mon père pleurer en le lisant, alors je me suis dit qu 'un livre qui pouvait faire pleurer les deux hommes de ma vie, il fallait que j'ai un moment tranquille pour le déguster!
Rabagliati reste à mes yeux un auteur exceptionnel et je sais que mon père et mon chum son d'accord avec moi là-dessus. Le terme de roman graphique prend ici tout son sens car il s'agit vraiment d'un roman et c'est sans aucun doute celui qui est le plus accompli jusqu'à maintenant. C'est un roman intime, personnel, qui prend sa source dans le quotidien, un quotidien riche de sens, de symbole et de culture québécoise. Un quotidien fort qui déclame l'identité québécoise.
J'aime les romans graphiques de Rabagliati, je les dévore et puis je les absorbe tout doucement, c'est le genre de lecture quime laisse en réflection, je n'ai pas très envie d'en parler, j'ai envie de vous dire "lisez-les" car après tout je n'ai aucun doute que si vous y mettez le nez, vous ne pourrez faire autrement qu'apprécier.
Il m'en resteun à lire, le dernier que j'ai offert à mon chum pour Noël, je legarde pour un moment calme, un moment de solitude où je pourrai le lired'une traite et en savourer le dessin, les mots, l'émotion.
Rabagliati reste à mes yeux un auteur exceptionnel et je sais que mon père et mon chum son d'accord avec moi là-dessus. Le terme de roman graphique prend ici tout son sens car il s'agit vraiment d'un roman et c'est sans aucun doute celui qui est le plus accompli jusqu'à maintenant. C'est un roman intime, personnel, qui prend sa source dans le quotidien, un quotidien riche de sens, de symbole et de culture québécoise. Un quotidien fort qui déclame l'identité québécoise.
J'aime les romans graphiques de Rabagliati, je les dévore et puis je les absorbe tout doucement, c'est le genre de lecture quime laisse en réflection, je n'ai pas très envie d'en parler, j'ai envie de vous dire "lisez-les" car après tout je n'ai aucun doute que si vous y mettez le nez, vous ne pourrez faire autrement qu'apprécier.
Il m'en resteun à lire, le dernier que j'ai offert à mon chum pour Noël, je legarde pour un moment calme, un moment de solitude où je pourrai le lired'une traite et en savourer le dessin, les mots, l'émotion.
March 17, 2013
J'ai eu l'opportunité de visiter la ville de Québec l'été 2012 et cette BD m'a complètement transporté de retour au beau milieu des Plaines d'Abraham! Les paysages québécois capturés par Rabagliati sont très bien dessinés. En fait, je trouve qu'en tant que dessinateur en général il fait un super travail avec des dessins noir et blanc simples mais hyper détaillés et une utilisation stratégique des images pour provoquer des émotions chez le lecteur. Et voilà qu'il y a des émotions fortes dans cette histoire! La BD, centrée sur la famille, raconte les derniers mois de Roland, le beau-père de Paul, atteint d'un cancer terminal. Rabagliati fait encore un travail excellent en capturant les petits bonheurs et malheurs de la famille de Paul avec des moments pleins d'humeur (j'ai ben rigolé par moments, notamment quand Paul et Lucie ont acheté un petit chien pour leur fille Rose et pis quand Paul a tenté de mettre en place Internet sur son ordi), mais évidemment aussi des moments tellement tristes et très touchants à cause de la maladie de Roland (j'avoue ne pas avoir pleuré seulement parce que j'ai lu en parties). Sinon, les expressions québécoises partout font beaucoup du charme de l'histoire. Enfin, je vous dirai rien d'autre pour vous laisser le plaisir de la découverte, tabarnak! Entièrement recommandable.
"Quelqu'un meurt et c'est comme un silence qui hurle... mais s'il nous aidait à entendre la fragile musique de la vie?".
"Quelqu'un meurt et c'est comme un silence qui hurle... mais s'il nous aidait à entendre la fragile musique de la vie?".
August 18, 2013
Otra obra maestra de Rabagliati, y ya van cuatro. Es el último heredero de la clásica línea clara, pero actualizada con la modernidad del slice of life. A la tradición franco-belga hay que añadir ahora la canadiense.
December 28, 2020
A life well lived
*This contains spoilers*
This is the best book of the series and the first five start for me; emotional, rich, textured... Many times, during the reading, I was almost in tears, and I am not one to cry easily/often when reading. I swear I had a hard time to keep it together. There is a very strong realism to this story, Rabagliati seems to be picking the right details, the right image or words every time. The large wordless section also carry an emotional weight. People have commented that it mirrors their experience of going through the end-of-life care for someone they loved, and I am not surprised.
So what is this about? Death, of course, palliative care, and the end of a life well lived. We don't do end of life well, despite all the current discussions about assisted-suicide at the political and social level; it is still a mess. Given that, Roland, in the book has a favorable outcome, he is well surrounded and well cared for until the end.
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As soon as you start the book the sense of place, again. This is Québec, well captured. The Madrid, the poutine buffet, the butter on the pizza crust (true story, I though EVERYONE put butter on pizza crust, when I moved away, the first time I was given pizza at a restaurant without butter, I went asking for it and I was really confused when people didn't understand why I wanted butter, I still remember the waiter's quizzical look when I told him he forgot the butter...) and of course the joual, the musing about independence... The dialogue, and the drawing, all better than ever. The pacing also, with the division of chapters first in months, then in days, as we slowly approach the inescapable... this aspect of the story is masterful. In a way I need Paul/Rabagliati right now since I can't get home, it helps a lot.
At the moment when Roland is leaving is home for the last time to enter palliative care, there is a panel where he addresses directly the reader to provide a very clinical definition of palliative care. Just when I was reading this panel, my daughter started yelling at me to ask me how to spell a word, you know how kids do, with the same urgency as if she was telling me the house was on fire... Anyway, instead of getting annoyed, the precarity and the brevity of this moment overwhelmed me. How lucky am I.... I proceeded to help her spell the word she was looking for (D-A-N-I-E-L) very slowly, taking in the moment at best I could. A time will soon come where I will long for her millions questions, when no longer her pressing little voice will lift my head from my books... Ultimately, it is this kind of book, the one that reminds you of the precarity of life and of the importance of family.
*This contains spoilers*
This is the best book of the series and the first five start for me; emotional, rich, textured... Many times, during the reading, I was almost in tears, and I am not one to cry easily/often when reading. I swear I had a hard time to keep it together. There is a very strong realism to this story, Rabagliati seems to be picking the right details, the right image or words every time. The large wordless section also carry an emotional weight. People have commented that it mirrors their experience of going through the end-of-life care for someone they loved, and I am not surprised.
So what is this about? Death, of course, palliative care, and the end of a life well lived. We don't do end of life well, despite all the current discussions about assisted-suicide at the political and social level; it is still a mess. Given that, Roland, in the book has a favorable outcome, he is well surrounded and well cared for until the end.
***************
As soon as you start the book the sense of place, again. This is Québec, well captured. The Madrid, the poutine buffet, the butter on the pizza crust (true story, I though EVERYONE put butter on pizza crust, when I moved away, the first time I was given pizza at a restaurant without butter, I went asking for it and I was really confused when people didn't understand why I wanted butter, I still remember the waiter's quizzical look when I told him he forgot the butter...) and of course the joual, the musing about independence... The dialogue, and the drawing, all better than ever. The pacing also, with the division of chapters first in months, then in days, as we slowly approach the inescapable... this aspect of the story is masterful. In a way I need Paul/Rabagliati right now since I can't get home, it helps a lot.
At the moment when Roland is leaving is home for the last time to enter palliative care, there is a panel where he addresses directly the reader to provide a very clinical definition of palliative care. Just when I was reading this panel, my daughter started yelling at me to ask me how to spell a word, you know how kids do, with the same urgency as if she was telling me the house was on fire... Anyway, instead of getting annoyed, the precarity and the brevity of this moment overwhelmed me. How lucky am I.... I proceeded to help her spell the word she was looking for (D-A-N-I-E-L) very slowly, taking in the moment at best I could. A time will soon come where I will long for her millions questions, when no longer her pressing little voice will lift my head from my books... Ultimately, it is this kind of book, the one that reminds you of the precarity of life and of the importance of family.
March 29, 2024
More serious than the previous ones: about losing a parent due to terminal illness, and how this engages the whole family.
The other books in this series also show glimpses of other people's lives and their influence, but still primarily focussing on Paul. This one is the opposite.
Fits in and is important in Paul's life, of course, and a nice way of remembering his father-in-law. But I'm looking forward to the next one hoping it will refocus on Paul.
Still beautifully done, though. I love the illustrations and tone of this series. Want to obtain the whole series just to be able to treasure these in my bookcase.
The other books in this series also show glimpses of other people's lives and their influence, but still primarily focussing on Paul. This one is the opposite.
Fits in and is important in Paul's life, of course, and a nice way of remembering his father-in-law. But I'm looking forward to the next one hoping it will refocus on Paul.
Still beautifully done, though. I love the illustrations and tone of this series. Want to obtain the whole series just to be able to treasure these in my bookcase.
January 4, 2023
Je sais pas si ça compte dans mon année de lecture (😇), mais honnêtement je crois que oui parce que ça faisait mille ans que je n’y avais pas touché et j’étais entrain de pleurer quand j’ai finit le livre. Maudit, j’échappe pas aux soins palliatifs, j’avais oublié 🥺.
April 4, 2022
hits close to home
August 2, 2023
Mon préféré de la serie Paul de cet auteur ! Super bédé qui retrace la vie de son beau-père. Beaucoup d'émotions, j’avoue avoir beaucoup pleuré.
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February 14, 2024
Again, j'ai versé des larmes. Ahhh les Paul.. 🫶🏻
September 30, 2024
On est là sur une petite pépite ! Tout y est : personnages attachants, dessins simples mais beaux et dialogues faciles à lire et bien construits... Un coup de cœur !
July 31, 2020
excellent. pas mon préféré par contre... une histoire de papa malade quand c’est raconté avec autant de finesse et de tendresse ça me vire trop à l’envers.
sobre et juste.
sobre et juste.
April 28, 2010
Holy heart-breaker batman. This is the most recent of the Paul books, and the others were all so much lighter in tone that I had no idea what I was in for. It's a beautiful portrait, and I loved it, but a warning: this one is not for reading in public. This one is for reading on the couch with tissues and someone to hug.
December 27, 2020
Oh que c’est beau et touchant. L'auteur a encore réussi à me faire rire ET pleurer. L'histoire m’a rappelé plein de choses : l’achat de notre maison et les inévitables « surprises », les gros party de famille à jouer aux cartes, la maladie et la mort de mon grand-père... et m'a fait penser que mes parents vieillissent aussi… ouf!
August 14, 2020
The Paul books by Michel Rabagliati have this wonderfully specific Quebecois uniqueness and yet manage to be totally universal as well. They're simple, they're complex, they're funny, they're sad, they're heartwarming, they're heartbreaking, they're basically perfect.
August 13, 2022
Ça m’a ramené des souvenirs douloureux, mais quelques sourires aussi. Le film ne rend pas justice à toutes les émotions véhiculées dans la bd. À lire 💙
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