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Sam and Sassy chat to Visitor Experience Assistant Lizzy Newman. We'll
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As it can be seen the storyline has nothing to do with the actual story, nor do the images - physically or psychologically - of Deleers' Emily and Charlotte have the slightest resemblance with what we know of the Brontë sisters and their stay in Brussels. But this is not to be interpreted as criticism, because since the very beginning the editors are quite clear:1842 Two young English women, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, arrive in Brussels to live in a pensionnat and polish their French. In exchange for their accommodation, Charlotte will have to impart several English lessons, and Emily will keep company to a young blind woman: Katherine Murmaul't, sister to the German artist Oskar Murmaul't.The first meeting with the brother and sister marks the grounds on which their relation will stand: an atmosphere of troubled, sensual, intriguing passion. Each little gesture and each little word seem to hide part of their secret madness.
This album is inspired by a not well-known episode of the Brontë sisters' lifes: their stay in Brussels in 1842. Nevertheless, this is a book absolutely based on the imagination and it's not at all a historical biography. Rather a dreamed biography.From the perspective of a blog named BrontëBlog, what we can consider is if this dreamed biography is coherent with the spirit of Emily Brontë and her Wuthering Heights (as the graphical novel presents an alternative-reality explanation of how the novel was born). And in our opinion, we cannot think so.
(...) Hurlevent is an extremely audacious, innovative album, with high artistic expectations. A remarkable work (...) (David Taugis)Bedethèque / Krinein
It's an atmospherical comic. I was transported by that special graphic design. The script, what script? I should say, it's not that there was not a story, rather the feeling that the story is just an excuse in order to allow the atmosphere to enter the reader. (edgarmint on Bedethèque)The original illustrations of Jérôme Deleers for Hurlevent were exhibited at the beginning of this month in the Hôtel de Ville in Brussels.
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