COMIC OF THE WEEK – A brilliant staging of Saint-Exupéry’s stay in Quebec in 1942.
What has not already been written about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the sources of Little Prince ! Enough? Well, it seems that certain subjects are inexhaustible and give wings to the talent of those who take them up. Philippe Girard, Quebec comics author, has composed an extremely original and successful graphic account of the five-week stay that Saint-Exupéry made in Quebec, from April 29 to June 7, 1942, a solidly informed work in which the author does not allows freedoms only to be faithful to the essential. This stay was remarkable in the life of Saint-Exupéry in that he set about writing the Little Prince right after.
The French writer, exiled in New York since January 1941, had agreed to give a few conferences in Montreal at the pressing request of his Canadian publisher who had published Courrier Sud, Night Flight, Land of Men. Et war pilotwhich had just been published in the United States in English and French, had achieved great success across the Atlantic. At this…
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