Emmanuel Polanco

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book cover with woman in historic dress

(1) Book cover and insights of Graphic Novel by Emmanuel Polanco »L'homme qui rêvait à l'envers« (The man who dreamed backwards). The book has 256 pages and has been published in May 2024 by Casterman in french language.

(2) Paris, second half of the 19th century. Dr. Parent, a respected doctor in Parisian high society, receives an impromptu visit from Mathilde, the young wife of his friend. She implores him to travel to Normandy urgently: She is convinced that her cousin Édouard's life is in danger. She uses the train journey to let him read Édouard's diary: The doctor is puzzled by the account of a man haunted by an evil presence. Is it a paranoid delusion or a real intruder?

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