Currently, Professor of Graphic Fiction and Comic Art at Lancaster University, novelist, graphic novelist, intellectual biographer, cultural historian and screen-writer Benoît Peeters will be giving a talk on his famous comics Les Cités Obscures at the Institut français d'Ecosse.
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Fragment de la couverture de «Revoir Paris, l'exposition».
Image: Schuiten-Peeters/Ed Casterman
The obscure cities “between utopia and dystopia”
Architecture and comics have always nurtured a special bond. Yet, no comics have put architecture on such a pedestal as François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters’s Obscure Cities did.
These albums play around the patterns of an obsolete modernity - that of Jules Verne, Albert Robida or Le Corbusier. By doing so, they offer a future as people would have imagined in the past. The cityscape, as a result, becomes the melting pot of different styles and periods. Halfway between utopia and dystopia, The Obscure Cities inspire dreams about the infinite shapes cities could take now and later.
About Benoît Peeters
Benoît Peeters is the author of three books about Tintin’s creator: Hergé’s world (Casterman, 1983), Hergé, Tintin’s son (Flammarion, 2002) and Reading Tintin, the delighted jewellery (Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2007). With the illustrator François Schuiten, Peeters is the co-author of the famous comics The Obscure Cities. Novelist, graphic novelist, intellectual biographer, cultural historian and screen-writer, he is currently Professor of Graphic Fiction and Comic Art at Lancaster University.
For further information, see Benoît Peeters Official Website.
Event details
Rencontre littéraire: Benoît Peeters
Saturday, 03 February | 5.30pm
FREE Event & Open to all
Language: French
Event co-organised by IFE, Wallonie Bruxelles, University of Edinburgh (UoE), DELC
The obscure cities “between utopia and dystopia” is part of DELC Research Seminar Series and follows an initial event “An icon in the making: Tintin” at the University of Edinburgh, at 10.30 on the same day. More information will be available soon.
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