Pierre Assouline

Herge

The Man Who Created Tintin

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the most beloved characters in all of comics, Tintin won an enormous international following. Here is the first full biography of Hergà available for an English-speaking audience, offering a captivating portrait of a man who revolutionized the art of comics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780199837274
• ISBN-10: 0199837279
• Artikelnr.: 33690288

Autorenporträt

Pierre Assouline is a prominent French journalist and writer. His has written several novels as well as acclaimed biographies of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and detective novelist Georges Simenon. He is also a film producer and was the 2007 winner of the prestigious Prix de la Langue Française. Charles Ruas is the author of Conversations with American Writers and a frequent contributor to ArtNews and Art in America.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I: Truths 1. A Life in Gray: 1907
1925 2. Scoutmaster in the Twentieth Century: 1925
1929 3. The Many Births of Tintin: 1929
1934 4. What Chang Taught Herge: 1934
1936 5. Eye of the Storn: 1936
1940 6. The Golden Age: 1940
1944 Part II: Solitude 7. The Plight of the Inciviques: 1944
1946 8. The Dark Years: 1946
1950 Part III: Recognition 9. Toward Fulfillment: 1950
1958 10. The Demon of Purity: 1958
1960 11. Finishing Touches: 1960
1973 12. The End of a Life, the Culmination of his Work: 1973
1983 abbreviations used in notes Notes Select Bibliograohy List of works by Herge Acknowledgments Index