The spiral notebook (French edition) by Didier Tronchet

Didier Tronchet, a comic book author recognized for his biting humor and sharp view of our era, presents here a profoundly introspective and sincere work.

Over the years, Tronchet has created stories tinged with humor, populated by fictional characters and stylized figures, all avatars that concealed a part of himself. This authorial work has long allowed him to keep a painful reality at bay, a personal story incomplete, filled with silences and unspoken words.

But one day, the mechanics of fiction collapse. Through the prism of his past stories, Tronchet begins to discern the outlines of his own story: blurry, fragmented, masked behind caricatures. On that day, the author realizes that what he has always depicted is the absence of dialogue with his mother.

In "Le cahier à spirale", the author embarks on a return to the roots, equipped with a simple notebook. He attempts to rebuild the missing connection, to break the silence that always structured their relationship. An invisible face-to-face, in which emotion surfaces on every page, and where long-repressed words finally seek expression.

This graphic novel, of great emotional accuracy, questions the construction of the self, the power of memory, and the need for truth to free oneself from the past. It is also a reflection on transmission, the invisible scars of childhood and the sometimes impossibility of communicating with those who gave us life.

Tronchet’s drawing, always so expressive, accompanies this inner journey with finesse. Alternately funny, painful, lucid, "Le cahier à spirale" touches the heart with its human depth and its disarming authenticity.

Product Features

• Product Type: Graphic Novel

• Title: Le cahier à spirale

• Author: Didier Tronchet

• Publisher: Dupuis

• EAN13: 9782808507677

• ISBN: 978-2-8085-0767-7

• Publication Date: March 28, 2025

• Number of Pages: 192

• Dimensions: 2.6 x 19.9 x 2.1 cm

• Weight: 830 g

• Language: French