Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin
by Pierre Assouline. Translated by Charles Ruas. Oxford
University Press, 2009. 288pp.
Hardcover: ISBN-10: 0195397592
|| ISBN-13: 978-0195397598
Library of Congress:
PN6790.B43 H47264 2009
Dewey: 741.5/092 B 22
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Preface ... ix
Part I: Truths
1. A life in gray: 1907-1925 ... 3
2. Scoutmaster in the twentieth century: 1925-1929 ... 11
3. The many births of Tintin: 1929-1934 ... 19
4. What Chang taught Hergé: 1934-1936 ... 48
5. Eye of the storm: 1936-1940 ... 54
6. The golden age: 1940-1944 ... 69
Part II: Solitude
7. The plight of the Inciviques:
1944-1946 ... 105 [excerpt @ NY Times]
8. The dark years: 1946-1950 ... 120
Part III:
Recognition
9. Toward fulfillment: 1950-1958 ... 147
10. The demon of purity: 1958-1960 ... 184
11. Finishing touches: 1960-1973 ... 193
12. The end of a life, the culmination of his work: 1973-1983 ... 207
Abbreviations Used in Notes ... 235
Notes ... 236
Select Bibliography ... 256
List of Works by Hergé ... 259
Acknowledgments ... 261
Index ... 263
Reviews
/ Features:
Boyd, Robert. 2009.
[review.] The Great God
Pan is Dead (November 24). [online]
Carey, John. 2009.
[review.] The Sunday
Times (October 25). [online]
Dirda, Michael. 2009.
"The unheroic genius behind the adventures of Tintin." Washington Post
(November 2). [online] also reviews The Metamorphoses of Tintin, or
Tintin for Adults by Jean-Marie Apostolidès.
Handy, Bruce. 2009.
"Tintinabulation." New
York Times (December 24). [online]
Hodler, Timothy. 2009.
"Boy's Life." BookForum
(Dec/Jan 2010). [online]
McGrath, Charles. 2009.
"The Man Behind Boy, Dog and Their Adventures." New York Times
(December 24). [online]
Solomon, Charles. 2009.
[review.] Los Angeles
Times "Hero Complex" (December 12). [read at LA Times || read
at Powell's]