Fraise et Chocolat

October 12th, 2006

Author : Aurelia Aurita
Publisher : Les Impressions Nouvelles (FR, BE)
Copyright: © 2006 Les Impressions nouvelles
Note: Special notice ! Novel for mature audience only.
Literal translation: Strawberry & Chocolate
Additional Information: Not currently available in English.

Fraise & chocolat is definitely a story about a real love and passion. Aurelia arrived in Japan to see Frederic, they met once in Paris but they wrote each other for the last 4 months. That is the starting point of the travel in the intimacy of two people where the exploration of physical love have a large part. The narration is very fresh and I got the feeling sometimes that the heart of Aurelia is to big and will explode if she can’t share her experience.

I don’t know if Fraise & Chocolat can be distributed on US market, it will be most likely consider as pornography. In my mind, this graphic novel is closer to the work made by the photograph Nan Goldin when she shot pictures of couples in their intimacy, I saw these series of pictures some years ago in an exhibition and I keep thinking that is what happiness looks like to me.

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