The True Value of the Castafiore Jewels - Collector's Edition

Features:

Format: 155 mm x 230 mm

Pagination: --- pages

Cover: Hardback

Author: Jean Dubois

Publisher: 7 without 14

Release: May 22, 2025

Enjoy this edition reserved for enthusiasts and lovers of fine books.

To approach this legendary and much-discussed album from a new perspective...

And finally reveal the true purpose of this Tintin adventure, too often reduced to a banal bird story...

The Castafiore Emerald is a unique album in Hergé's oeuvre, because while the story seems banal—and it is, from its creator's perspective—it embodies an ambitious, yet previously unrevealed, project (which will be revealed in the opus dedicated to a reinterpretation of this album). Many seasoned exegetes have endeavored to explain the meaning of this album to newcomers, but so far they have only managed to skim the surface:

* Benoît Peeters, in Les Bijoux ravis, spoke of an "anti-adventure" and a trompe-l'oeil story.

* Raphaël Enthoven describes it as a "hellish album that places chance above providence."

* and Michel Serres had a great time parroting Ionesco...