Haddock blows his top
Christopher Tayler: Hergé’s Redemption, 7 June 2012
Hergé: The Man who Created Tintin
by Pierre Assouline, translated by Charles Ruas.
Oxford, 276 pp., £9.99, October 2011,978 0 19 983727 4 Show More
by Pierre Assouline, translated by Charles Ruas.
Oxford, 276 pp., £9.99, October 2011,
Hergé, Son of Tintin
by Benoît Peeters, translated by Tina Kover.
Johns Hopkins, 394 pp., £15.50, November 2011,978 1 4214 0454 7 Show More
by Benoît Peeters, translated by Tina Kover.
Johns Hopkins, 394 pp., £15.50, November 2011,
“... estate which Captain Haddock comes into by penetrating the secrets of an aristocratic ancestor. Serge Tisseron, a French psychoanalyst, puts the story at the centre of his theory of Tintin, and McCarthy has fun with it in his study. The Remis weren’t very close or communicative, and there weren’t many books in the house, though the young Hergé wasn’t ... ”