“I think about it often, it’s 20 pages, half an album,” Anne Goscinny told the German weekly. Der Spiegel. In an interview published this weekend, René Goscinny’s daughter spoke of the discovery, in family archives, of an unfinished scenario of the adventures of Asterix written by her father before his death.
The scenario of this intrigue entitled Asterix at the circus, typed, should have appeared after Asterix among the Belgians. Asked about a posthumous finish of this album, Anne Goscinny replied that it would be “very complicated”.
“It’s like a painting by Goya that has a hole”
“Many, many people should sit down around the table, immerse themselves in history and rediscover [la] voice [de mon père], she said. It’s like a painting by Goya that has a hole. “However, she does not close the door to such a project:” One day, we will try, it would be an extraordinary adventure, “she added.
Died in 1977, René Goscinny is, with Albert Uderzo, who died last year, the creator of the irreducible Gaul in 1959.
The Adventures of Asterix have sold several hundred million copies worldwide. He was instrumental in creating the profession of comic book writer, which did not exist before him.