Displays of Affection

Sempe, Jean-Jacques

ISBN 10: 0894801945 / ISBN 13: 9780894801945

Published by Workman Publishing Company, 1981

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Displays of Affection

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Publication Date: 1981

Binding: paperback

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

With pen and ink, and with gentle understanding, France's most acclaimed cartoonist explores the question of the delicate balance. Displays of Affection pictures love in cozy parlors, on a starry night, in chic apartments, on a windswept beach, on a wobbly bicycle. Close to 100 drawings and captions evoke tenderness, melancholy, skirmish, and triumph. "Vulnerability is la condition humaine," Sempe told The New York Times. In this funny and moving book, his lovers and couples prove it every time. Sempe's people live in a world that is not necessarily easy for lovers. (After all, out of 2000 possible lovers, how do you find the ideal one?) But as they struggle to find each other nevertheless, they often discover, like the couple dancing alone to the strains of a full-piece orchestra in their own backyard, that "things seem to sort themselves out."

From the Back Cover:

The great ideal of the grand and lasting passion smiles down on the bumbling solitude of Sempe's lovers and mates who fight, scold, daydream, protect themselves with envelopes of self-importance. . . . He is the master of observed comic detail. . . .

--EDWARD KOREN, from the Introduction