Describe your latest book.
Gébé’s
Letter to Survivors.
A mailman in a hazmat suit bikes across the postapocalyptic wastes, reading letters down ventilation shafts to families trapped in fallout shelters. Stories of the good old days, they seem at first meant to taunt and torment with memories of a world no more. But as they go on, a shadow creeps over them: Can it be that in those golden times, catastrophe was already at work? And if so, how to envision a world where it will never happen again?
Gébé, or Georges Blondeaux (1929-2004), was a fixture of the French press from 1960 onward, best known as a cartoonist, but also author, lyricist, screenwriter, and dramatist, a maker of short films and photo-novels, beloved editor and nurturer of new talent. What to call him?...