| Notes: [COMICS]. Ed. Hans Ulrich Obrist. Sephane Hessel, Pascal Lemaitre. "Le Point d'Ironie Numero Special, Avril 2010, La violente esperance de Stephane Hessel [French]." Paris: Agnes B and Le Point d'Ironie, April 2010. First edition. French language. Newsprint comic printed black with horizontal fold-line as issued. A visually powerful short adaptation of WW2-veteran Hessel's best-selling cri de coeur "Indignez-vous" which took France by storm with its moral witness to Palestine, wealth inequality, and other issues affecting France at the end of his life. 16 1/2 x 12 inches. 1 oz. 8 pp. Several indented fold-lines besides the horizontal. Some creasing. Toning to wrappers. Interior clean. Good. No ISBN. No ASIN. OCLC: 1018448342. "Hessel, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure, fought for the free French and was deported as a resistant, took part in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the creation of the State of Israel. He has been a French ambassador, a defender of illegal immigrants and member of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. Pascal Lemaitre was born in Brussels in 1967 and studied at La Cambre where he now teaches. He works in publishing and for the press in Europe and the United States. He has published many children’s books, among them four written by Toni Morrison." |