In this album Baudoin tells us its childhood together with his brother (Piero) who is also his best friend, his intimate friend and his companion of drawing (passion which they share).
Piero is first of all an autobiographic story where the author tells his childhood with his brother, designer, entered later in an artistic school also. Momon and Piero, therefore, start to draw very early. They will not go to the nursery school, because of the illness of Piero. And shock will be there only harder: all children do not draw as them. The only one will make his job, and it is not always delui that they believe! Many details on the life of both boys in a villge isolated from the country of Nice, shortly after World War II, are related with a lot of authenticity.
Explored topics are classics for Baudoin: memories, dreams, art of the drawing, the family but since it controls perfectly its feature and its narration (go them return between dreams and realities are incredible), he hits the bull's eye once again.
- Pedagogic tracks around the album Piero
This graphic novel recalls the childhood of two brothers, whom they see exaggerating by exercising their love passionate in the drawing. The narrator, who does not come to light immediately, brushes a story in black and white in autobiographic tone: the family of the sixties, the accident of moped, the first love affairs, the entrance in the Fine arts of the elder, the home-come punctuate a moving and universal history. The reading of the album is made complex due to the economy of narration. The job of interpretation starts from the first one of cover where asks the question of the name of the author Piero Baudoin, Piero or Baudoin. The page one points out that Piero is the designer of the cover. Mystery takes shape at the beginning of the story with the presence of a narrator, brother of Piero. To dissociate provisionally the text of vignettes and to ask the pupils to re-link them allows to make appear their hypotheses and to differentiate Piero (Pierre) of Momon (Edmund), at the same time graphically and in swordings. Then the reader provided with these landmarks will share dreams and games of both brothers under the sign of graphic activity. Indeed, this story is a hymn in the drawing as mode of expression, as report in the world, in one and in others. A noting down of meetings and of activities of both brothers will allow a reflexion on the function of the dream in the act of creation across this story. It is possible to offer in the reading of other writings of the author published in the Threshold: Matt, novel graphic (level 3) and an album, Chingom (level 2). On peut proposer la lecture d autres uvres de l auteur publi es au Seuil: Mat, roman graphique (niveau 3) et un album, Chingom(niveau 2).
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