Autobiographical Innovations: Edmond Baudoin's Éloge de la poussière

Screech, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2100-7362 (2008) Autobiographical Innovations: Edmond Baudoin's Éloge de la poussière. European Comic Art, 1 (1). pp. 57-85. ISSN 1754-3797

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Abstract

The article analyses Éloge de la poussière ['In Praise of Dust'] (1995), an autobiographical bande dessinée by French cartoonist Edmond Baudoin (1942-). The work is compared with autobiographical writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Michel Leiris and Roland Barthes, Alberto Giacometti's approach to painting, and comics by Baru, Hergé, Hugo Pratt, Jacques de Loustal and Philippe Paringaux. It is argued that Éloge de la poussière is a non-linear autobiography that uses collage to suggest connections that readers may choose to make. The article examines how the book thematises the fallibility of memory, the tension between confession and self-censorship, the relationship between art and reality, and difficulty of ending an autobiography.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2009 14:16
Publisher:	Berghahn Journals
Additional Information:	This is an Author Accepted Manuscript of an article published in in European Comic Art, published by and copyright Berghahn Journals.
Divisions:	Faculties > Arts and Humanities
Subject terms:	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/87661
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.3828/eca.1.1.5
ISSN	1754-3797
e-ISSN	1754-3800

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