INTERVIEW
Anne Goscinny has always watched over the image of her father. She proves it once again through the book: The novel Goscinny, birth of a Gaul , the designer Catel. The two women were Patrick Cohen's guests on the program C'est arrivé cette semaine . They told the genesis of this book.
"A double portrait of the father, the daughter and this transmission"
For the girl, Anne Goscinny, there was in this process of graphic novel a "necessity": that to make live the memory of his father. "I can only rely on me," she says. And all the same on the help of Catel Muller, who for his part, was seduced by the idea of working on "a double portrait, of the father, the daughter and this transmission". Because it is the story of a father and his daughter.
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The novel opens on a scene that might be thought invented for cinema but that has indeed existed: Anne Gosciny arrives at 18 in the office of the cardiologist who had a test of fatal effort to his father nine years ago, making him believe that she is armed and that she is going to shoot him.
The work then digs the personality of one of the fathers of Asterix, the birth of René Goscinny, his career in Argentina where the family of Jewish origin is exiled, the antics of a little boy for whom, already, laughter is a "reason to live", then his return to France in 1951. "He created one of the twentieth century myths with hindsight and the space of an ocean between him and France," said his daughter.
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It is for the first time narrated with the art that made him famous
René Goscinny is also told through the key duets of his life, like the one he formed with Uderzo. "He was awesome, he understood that he was a better scriptwriter than a draftsman, he was a man with a genius of encounters, and at the time he was one of the best cartoonists in the world", as when he created the journal Pilote which will attract the finest of comics.
With this graphic book, his daughter Anne thus goes back the course of time, attends on paper at the birth of his father as a character. "It is a form of accomplishment, since it is for the first time told with the art that made it famous, but especially with the art that made it happy," she concludes.