Jacques Ferrandez, a work to celebrate the eternal splendors of his native Algeria

Children of the Belgian clear line of which Hergé and Edgar P. Jacobs were the fathers, the three Jacques – Tardi, Loustal and Ferrandez – each imposed a very personal universe, by turns joyful and melancholic, full of movement and emotion, by attaching their graphic art to a novelist. Tardi is Céline; Loustal , Simenon and Ferrandez , Camus. “Because it was him, because it was me…” Only the categories of the inexpressible, the irreducible, can evoke encounters of such importance in an artist’s life, as exclusive and decisive as mad love or great friendships.

When we talk about Albert Camus with Jacques Ferrandez, whose The Stranger, The First Man and The Guest (Gallimard) he framed, a short story from the collection Exile and the Kingdom, we are surprised to see that his seduction continues to operate as on the first day. This is the essence of grace. And Albert Camus, who devoted his graduate thesis to Saint Augustine...