Un visage familier /

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Author / Creator:	DeForge, Michael, 1987- author, illustrator.
Uniform title:	Familiar face. French
Imprint:	Paris : Atrabile, [2021] ©2021
Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 18 cm
Language:	French
Subject:	Bureaucracy -- Comic books, strips, etc. Civil service -- Comic books, strips, etc. Dystopian comics. Graphic novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12668641

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Other authors / contributors:	Roberto, Christophe Gouveia, translator. Peter, Aline, letterer.
ISBN:	9782889231096 2889231097
Notes:	Originally published by Drawn & Quarterly as Familar face.
Summary:	Walking in the footsteps of Georges Orwell or Aldous Huxley, Michael DeForge described in A Familiar Facea disturbing dystopia, a futuristic world where a form of dictatorship of technology reigns. In this world, the roads, the cities, but also their inhabitants, are regularly "updated"; from one day to the next, buildings change shape and place, roads no longer lead to the same destinations, and human beings wake up with different faces, fewer ribs or extra legs. The book specifically follows a government employee (and narrator of the book), who works in the complaints department; his role is to read them, providing neither an answer nor a solution, as if the simple fact of staring at a screen meant that “someone takes care of it". The day after an optimization, the employee's companion disappears without a trace - did she leave voluntarily, or was it the victim of optimization? In search of a sign, in a strange atmosphere of paranoia, what the narrator discovers is that somewhere, there is still a little anger, indignation in this soulless world, and that the resistance get organized...--Translation of publisher's description.

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Call Number:	PN6733.D43 F3614 2021
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