“Trois petits chats” (Three Little Cats) is a children’s rhyme, and its principle is very simple: each new word (repeated several times over to make a verse) must start with the syllable that ended the previous one. And so on, and so on. It’s a stylistic device, known in French as dorica castra, that is also used in literary works. But with “Trois petits chats”, there’s no sense or logic, and there’s even less of a storyline! Olivier Pont has taken this aspect of the children’s rhyme and applied it to a graphic novel aimed at teenagers and adults. He imagines someone swept along by a tide of events involving each of the objects and characters that appear in the rhyme.
An impressive exercise in style from the author of Où le regard ne porte pas et DesSeins.
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