Grand Père (new illustrated dition), Jean-Louis Costes with illustrations by Anne Van der Linden
In French, hardcover, 256 pages (17 ilust.), dimensions 16x24 cm, Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies by Eretic-art, 2014.
"Grand Père" is a brutal, fictionalized biography that recounts the violent odyssey of Garnick—Jean-Louis Costes' Armenian grandfather—from the massacres in Russia and the hardships of the Foreign Legion to his bitter old age in France. This limited edition merges the author’s raw, 'trash' prose with Anne Van der Linden’s grotesque illustrations, creating a disturbing portrait of a man defined by war, crime, and barbarism, seen through the eyes of a grandson torn between repulsion and fascination.
