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EAN : 9782260054337
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 544
Size : 140 x 225 mm
Speak of the Devil

Release date : 02/01/2020
Paris, 1917: a merciless fight is taking place between demons and sorcerers over a painting with terrifying powers. Young Aimé Grandin has nothing but his ingenuity and bravery against a frenzy of evil forces.
1917: While World War I rumbles on, Aimé Grandin learns that his uncle Géo, a painter and master forger, has
disappeared. In addition to a workshop in Montparnasse, Aimé inherits a mysterious notebook, a key, and some strange paper rectangles, which he quickly realizes form a puzzle. But the moment he...
1917: While World War I rumbles on, Aimé Grandin learns that his uncle Géo, a painter and master forger, has
disappeared. In addition to a workshop in Montparnasse, Aimé inherits a mysterious notebook, a key, and some strange paper rectangles, which he quickly realizes form a puzzle. But the moment he puts it together and looks at the resulting image, he loses consciousness. From then on, a slow process of petrification starts affecting his body. Aimé has no other choice than to find the original portrait of Medusa—the mythological figure who turns anyone who dares to look at her to stone—in order to break the curse. But troubles all around Aimé, as Mérie, the beautiful nurse he has been seeing for some time, has a sudden and dramatic change in personality. Under the name of Éléonore Paradise, Mérie then moves into high-up diplomatic circles with the mission of seducing Viktor Tombo, a famous illusionist with an obscure past. In love with the same woman, Aimé and Viktor both try to free Mérie from the evil entity that seems to have taken possession of her. But what none of them knows is that through them, mere mortals, a war is taking place between powerful sorcerers and demons.

Speak of the Devil follows the tradition of France’s great serial writers, for whom entertainment did not exclude philosophical depth. Here, the Great War, the result of a global death wish, marks the moment when humanity realized in horror the barbarianism of its own attraction. In the end, demons are nothing but the active “powers” of the unconscious. And history is a nightmare from which man needs to wake up.

 
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EAN : 9782260054337
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 544
Size : 140 x 225 mm
Julliard