Playing wolf

On 264 pages, Playing the Wolf presents around fifteen stories taken from the legendary Garo magazine, but also completely pages and illustrations unpublished, which makes this new collection, three years after L'Envol, a a real editorial event. Often presented as the first woman to have published in Garo, Kuniko Tsurita (who died prematurely at the age of 37) undoubtedly suffered from this status of "woman in a man's world", and a A significant part of his work has therefore remained in drawers - a work carefully preserved by her widower, Naoyuki Takahashi, who gave us kindly allowed to have access to it. Drawn between 1968 and 1981, the stories which make up Playing the Wolf once again show the full extent of the talent of the author and her changing interests: stories with political and protesters, animal fable, esoteric trip or even autobiography, all these pages also draw in hollow the portrait of a singular woman, passionate, and completely devoted to her art. And to make the party complete, Atrabile is also offering this month a reprint of L'Envol, already sold out! A carefully written translation and an enlightening postface by Léopold Dahan.