A double biography of two artists, their lives and works mirrored one another, and the comic book version further increases the daring slant of the underlying novel “Map and Area”, which was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 2010. Jed Martin is France’s most successful photo and painting artist, Michel Houellebecq is the most successful and scandalous enfant terrible of French literature, whose provocative statements on society and politics, especially on Islamism, triggered violent reactions. Jed Martin is a literary creature, a fictional character, but Houellebecq also has strange fictional moments – he is the author of “Map and Territory” and in this self-portrait he has brutally described all of his misery and that of French society. For the graphic novel version, he edited and purified the novel himself; Louis Paillard provided it with images in which the intimate meets the world-historical.
“Map and Territory” by Michel Houellebecq as a graphic novel: The art of the geographer – culture
