Tardi: The True Story Of The Unknown Soldier (Hardcover)
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Author: Jacques Tardi

Artist: Jacques Tardi

Published by: Fantagraphics Books
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Fantagraphics presents two experimental, early works by the French cartooning legend Tardi. These comics, created in the mid-’70s, provide a fascinating preview of the masterworks of his prolific career.

While they are not narratively linked, an eerie sense of foreboding suffuses stories in this collection: they both depict sex and brutal violence and condemn the horrors of war. The True Story of the Unknown Soldier follows a pulp novelist turned soldier who, driven to delirium amidst the trenches of WWI, becomes tormented by visions of his own seedy creations.

This stream-of-consciousness tale visualizes the tortured psyche of its protagonist through dazzling dreamscapes and surreal scenarios. In The National Razor, a soldier returns from war a shattered man. Drowning himself in drink, he wanders the streets of Paris without purpose; in this numb stupor, he finds himself caught up in strange situations, lashes out in unexpectedly violent ways, and ultimately meets with a bloody end.

At once a visceral depiction of the trauma wrought by war and a powerful denunciation of the death penalty and France’s iconic guillotine.

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