Artagan’s Journal

Narratives · Memory · Society · Creation

Artagan’s Journal

A space to extend the books, shed light on the realities running through them and enter behind the scenes of Artagan’s world.

Each article preserves the viewpoint and facts of the narrative. The whole surface of every card opens the article.

Nous étions deux · Narrative

Notre-Dame-de-Grâce: adults’ silence

Boarding school, bullying, violence and the inaction of adults who knew. The narrator is alone there, aged twelve to thirteen.

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Inheritance and family ties · Feature

When a spousal gift becomes a family weapon

An inheritance experienced as the confiscation of assets, memory and one’s place in the family line.

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Cannibal Western · Behind the scenes

How Cannibal Western was born after an interview at city hall

At twenty, Artagan wrote the book’s first text almost entirely by hand, before bringing it to life many years later.

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Nous étions deux · Brotherhood

Separated from my brother: when brotherhood was the last refuge

The separation of two brothers takes away the narrator’s last emotional refuge, which had helped him face rejection, violence and isolation.

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