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...jungle, to transform them into prisoners of a delirious faith in a messiah, who in the end would give free rein to his instincts for domination and death for them to become self-destructive robots." Perhaps reflecting a recent, antileftist trend among French intellectuals, the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur thought that the massacre epitomized "the insanity of totalitarianism in the guise of the clerical spirit...
...myself the recipient of the news just as the public will be, and to re-create before the public my reaction as I first felt it. In other words, it's more a carnal, physical style of communication than an analysis in words." According to the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, Gicquel, "carrying the burden of all the distress, loneliness and violence, grimaces painfully over all the international tensions and unemployment...
...goes another episode of Les Frustrés, a cartoon strip created by a Frenchwoman named Claire Bretécher and appearing in the leftist French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. For four years now, Les Frustrés has been comic-stripping the hypocrisy from everyday life among the thinking classes. In the process, Bretécher has become a financially secure woman, a cult figure among the trendy Parisians she skewers, and probably the most important French cartoonist never to be heard...
...cher ($5.95), was published in the U.S. last month by 21st Century Communications. Ten volumes of her work have appeared in France, and recent ones have sold more than 100,000 copies each. To Roland Barthes, a leading French writer-philosopher, Bretécher is "the best French sociologist." Nouvel Observateur Editor Jean Daniel calls her "the servant of Molière." Bretécher would answer such praise with her favorite epithet, "bidon" baloney...
...early Bretéchers were Turnips in the Cosmos, a sci-fi epic, and Cellulite, the saga of a husband-hunting medieval princess. Publisher Claude Perdriel was impressed by some of her more satirical strips, and in 1974 offered her the newly vacant job of regular cartoonist at his Nouvel Observateur. "I submitted my work on the condition that they did not require me to hang around for a lot of conferences and that they did not censor me," Bretécher recalls. To test Perdriel's sincerity, she drew as her first effort a saucy strip...