Hi Bernd - Glad to see somebody in Germany is reading an old book of mine!!
The Michel Serres essay on Tintin that I cited in PHANTASMS - which I still
regard, twenty-one years after first reading it, as one of the greatest
essays in the history of arts criticism - is not the same one that Lucie
helpfully noted. In French it is "Rires: les bijoux distraits, ou la
cantatrice sauve", which appeared in Serres' HERMES II: L'INTERFERENCE (Les
Editions de Minuit) - not sure of the year. The English translation by Tony
Thwaites and Sam Mele, "Laughs: The Misappropriated Jewels or a Close Shave
for the Prima Donna" appeared in the Australian journal ART & TEXT (now
defunct, I think), no. 9, Autumn 1983, pp. 14-28. The piece is entirely
devoted to the analysis of one Tintin comic: THE CASTAFIORE EMERALD (London:
Methuen, 1963).
Am I right in thinking that Serres has little effect on film studies? A
pity, because his work is so inspiring. Re-reading this brilliant piece by
him today makes me think of PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE: "the comic strip openly
demonstrates the gaping wounds of our discourse: the pasty mouth, wax in the
ears, broken channels, a great powerlessness in hearing or being heard ..."
Adrian
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