At the end of a group tour of Europe, a Japanese cartoonist makes a solitary stopover in Paris, with the idea of visiting the capital's museums.
But, confined to the bed in his hotel room by an insidious fever, he finds himself confronted above all with a form of absolute solitude, that of sufferers...
At the end of a group tour of Europe, a Japanese cartoonist makes a solitary stopover in Paris, with the idea of visiting the capital's museums.
But, confined to the bed in his hotel room by an insidious fever, he finds himself confronted above all with a form of absolute solitude, that of sufferers in a foreign land, deprived of any immediate recourse, in the heart of the unknown.a
While the disease gives him some respite, he puts his plan into action, and loses himself in the crowded aisles of the Louvre. He soon discovers many unsuspected facets of this world-museum, encountering works of art and artists from different eras, on a journey that oscillates between dream and reality, and ultimately leads him to the crossroads between collective tragedy and personal history.
With this album in the form of an interior voyage, Jirô Taniguchi invites us on a temporal and artistic journey to discover the spirit of the place, under the guidance of a few tutelary figures, both familiar and little-known... Because the Louvre has its guardians!
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