Catherine Meurisse turns from memoir to fiction, with Thoreau as her guide
The cartoonist who survived the Charlie Hebdo attack has built a new graphic novel loosely inspired by Henry David Thoreau, a departure from the autobiographical work that followed the tragedy.
Catherine Meurisse, who survived the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo, has published a work of fiction after several autobiographical albums, according to Le Courrier. Books such as La Légèreté and Les Grands espaces chronicled her own path through and beyond the massacre.
Her new book, per the same report, is "très librement inspiré" by the experiences of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), the American writer who spent two years living in a cabin he built himself.
Le Courrier's summary does not give the book's title, publisher or release date, nor any detail of its plot beyond the Thoreau connection. Those particulars are not yet available on this desk.
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