The Broken Man

Serge Lehman & Gess have already delighted us with La Brigade chimérique. Here they are again with a free adaptation of L'Homme truqué (The Phony Man) by Maurice Renard, a key author in the history of conjectural literature both in fiction and non-fiction.

Published by L'Atalante in its collection Flambant 9, L'Homme truqué in part takes up the world of La Brigade chimérique again with the end of the First World War, the Radium Institute,... there's no doubt it's going to be a good story... We can but hope that the multiple allusions in graphic books (whether it be Lehman, Nolane, Lofficier and the rest) made to old novels concerning conjectural literature will rekindle people's interest in a domain often overshadowed by its little sister across the pond...