Les Frustrés
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| Les Frustrés | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Dargaud |
| Publication date | October 1973 – 1981 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Claire Bretécher |
Les Frustrés is a comic strip series by the French writer Claire Bretécher, published from 1973 to 1981 in the center-left weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, as a continuation of Salades de saison published in Pilote from 1971 to 1973.[1]
Les Frustrés (the Frustrated) are men and women, often from a wealthy intellectual background, confronted with their little daily worries. Sixty-eighters on the decline, bourgeois-bohemian, middle managers or even emancipated women, exchange their ideas on short black and white stories and allow the author to express various thoughts on society. The topics covered are very varied: educational methods and problems, conflict between generations, women's emancipation, married life and its crises, decadence of society, politics, etc. There are no recurring characters.
Les Frustrés have been translated into Italian, Castilian, Danish, German, English, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Portuguese.
After several years spent working for the youth weeklies of Bande dessinée, Claire Bretécher joined in 1969 at Pilote, rather intended for adolescents. The following year, she produced pages for the Actualité , a series of often humorous short stories in which the newspaper's team commented on the present weather, a work that she did not appreciate very much.[2] Quickly, she treats her news in a very satirical way to showcase the shortcomings of her contemporaries, and particularly those she knows best, the urban middle and upper classes of the left, in stories of one or two pages in the middle. regular format. From 1971, these stories were published separately from the news under the title Salades de saison, and are the subject of an album in 1973.
When Bretécher enters the Nouvel Observateur, it uses this format from its first publication, in the issue of 24.[3] The fourth story, published on 15, is titled "The Frustrated Page", a title that appears above each plate from the October 29 issue.[3]
In 1975, she published an author's first collection of her boards. This one, as well as the following four, is "a considerable success" and has been translated into several languages.[4] In 1981, Bretécher decided to stop publishing every week in the Nouvel Obs.