Aha! A tease!

This page is silent.

Still lovely though  :)

Songes: Coraline is a graphic novel written by Denis-Pierre Filippi and illustrated by Terry Dodson, yep, the bloke from the X-Men. It was published in 2006.

It is a beautiful book that is set in Edwardian period France and tells the story of a young lady called Coraline Doucet who is hired as a governess to a small temperamental boy who lives in a grand château in the countryside. All is not what it seems in the house and at night she has vivid dreams that take her to strange places full of fantasy, mystery and sensuality that seem so very real to her that surely they cannot really be happening. Could they?

In my opinion it is Dodson’s finest work, full of his trademark detail, humour and of course Coraline herself is pleasing to the eye and often careless with her clothing ;)

The book is in French and there have been rumours of an English language release for years, yet nothing have materialised. It’s a real shame.

So, using my rudimentary French knowledge, dictionaries, websites and magic itself I am going to translate and re-set the pages in English and post them a page at a time. As anyone who has suffered badly translated videogames and movies will know, a literal translation never works, so I am going to re-write to make it flow better whilst keeping the spirit of the original text very much alive.

If this works, I’ll translate some more of my Bande Dessinee into the Queen’s English.