Elodie Durand Book order
Élodie Durand focuses on portraying the human psyche and the complexities of interpersonal relationships. Her works explore themes of identity, memory, and the search for meaning in life. Durand often uses introspective and poetic language to immerse readers in the inner world of her characters. Her style is characterized by its subtlety and deep understanding of the human experience.
- 2023
- 2021
Parenthesis
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
A triumph of graphic memoir, Parenthesis narrates the author's experience with tumor-related epilepsy--losing herself, and finding herself again. Judith is barely out of her teens when a tumor begins pressing on her brain, ushering in a new world of seizures, memory gaps, and loss of self. Suddenly, the sentence of her normal life has been interrupted by the opening of a parenthesis that may never close. Based on the real experiences of cartoonist Élodie Durand, Parenthesis is a gripping testament of struggle, fragility, acceptance, and transformation which was deservedly awarded the Revelation Prize of the Angoulême International Comics Festival.