The fairytales “Dans le ventre de la baleine”, a collection of remakes

It is not uncommon for fairytales to be rewritten, either as parody or as reappropriation. The collection In the Belly of the Whale adopts neither of these options; instead, what is foregrounded in these books is formal experimentation and a desire to trouble the connection between text and image. Reading these remakes offers us a new experience: fragments of the originals, stored in our memory, are retrieved and see their tragic substratum unexpectedly brought to light.