INTERVIEW
A good shot of young with a feature of fantasy. The Banquet, classic Plato, was revisited by Coco, designer of Charlie Hebdo and media philosopher Raphaël Enthoven. Four hands, they turned this vast exchange and scholarly discourse in a comic who wants affordable (The Breakaways editions), while remaining faithful to the text of the famous Greek philosopher. The two authors were Saturday guests of Patrick Cohen on Europe 1.
"It is a text which has 2,400 brooms ... It was the dust, it can get a little scared," said Coco, who herself had never read the text before embarking on his comic adaptation. "I found documentation that helped me formulate the ideas, and then I left free rein to my personal interpretation." Under his pen, there are the great characters that Plato staged around his banquet, Agathon, Aristophanes, Socrates ... and Raphael Enthoven himself, sporting a gown for the occasion.
Aristophanes and the myth of "men-boules"
Delicious and earthy, the Banquet and @Enthoven_R @cocoboer masterpiece, elevated to comic turns into a wild and didactic nugget when it speaks of love, desire and stalking for her beauty Similarly, instead of sinking into the passion of corps.Joie pic.twitter.com/iz3PTOCU5v
- Eve (@ evedum75) November 9, 2019"It's an idea of Coco," smiles the philosopher. "To dissect a scene, it provides additional information not in the original text but tell us more," justifies the illustrator. Among the major extracts taken particular face the beautiful myth of Aristophanes, the origins of lack and desire. Raphaël Enthoven said: "Originally, humans were two-headed balls for punishing their pride, Zeus decided to cut in half since, failing to merge with each other, we give the illusion.. an ephemeral fusion by mating from time to time. "
"An eternal text"
It presents Socrates as you've never seen / read, to find soon in the comic strip "The Banquet" Coco and Raphaël Enthoven.
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To draw these "balls-men," Coco was based on the description realized from Plato. "They are well described, but it was also necessary to give them a way to move. This is a very rich work, very abounding," she said. Despite its "2,400 brooms", the Banquet still seems to them to be topical. "It's an eternal text because we've always loved each other the same way."