Jean-François Desserre - Le Maître et Marguerite
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Jean-François Desserre (° 17/07/1970) studied graphic design - first at the École d'Arts Visuels of Cambrai (1991) and later at the École nationale d'Art of Cergy-Pontoise (1992) - before getting a Postgraduate degree in Art His-tory at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier (2001) and a Ph. D. in Art Science at the Université de Provence in Aix-en-Provence (2008).
While being an author of graphic novels, Jean-François Desserre also undertakes plastic research focused primarily on the practices of drawing. He regularly shows the results of it at various exhibitions and galleries of contemporary art as wall drawings or as independent drawings.
In 1999 he represented the city of Montpellier at the Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs d´Europe et de la Méditerranée in Rome with his adaptation of the novel Die Verwandlung (La Metamorphosis) by Franz Kafka.
Jean-François Desserre loves to realize projects based on the works of Russian authors because, in his opinion, they are quite suitable for gra-phic adaptations, especially an excellent hallucinating story like The Master and Margarita. In 2001 and 2002, he made two trips to Russia to prepare his graphic adaptation of Bulgakov's novel. His adaptation has not (yet) been published. It's not a classic adaptation but a free interpretation or, as the author explains, a journey through the novel. «I went to Moscow twice, in the winters of 2001 and 2002, and I went to the scenes of the novel as well as to Bulgakov's apartment to make sketches, to collect graphic material and to develop a kind of vision - a confrontation between today's Moscow and yesterday's novel, including my own journey. I doubt that the result will ever be published...».
Since 2002, Jean-François Desserre is, together with Manuel Fadat, the inspirator of a magazine for research and creation, Los flamencos no co-men, which is focussing on contemporary art. Since 2006, he lives and works in Berlin (Germany). For the moment he's working on an adaptation of The Double, a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Click here to see some excerpts of the graphic novel
Click here to visit the blog of Jean-François Desserre
Flash animation
As a spin-off of Jean-François Desserre's graphic novel, the French anima-tors Clément Charmet and Elisabeth Klimoff made a Flash animation of the first and third chapter of The Master and Margarita. We present it in the Films and animations section of this website.
Complete albums
- Introduction
- Le maître et Marguerite - Askold Akishine
- Master and Margarita - Andrzej Klimowski
- Master i Margarita - Rodion Tanaev
Incomplete adaptations
- Introduction
- Master i Margarita - Allison R. Barbour
- The Master and Margarita - Boring Bear
- The Master and Margarita - Colin Alexander
- Le maître et Marguerite - J.-F. Desserre
- Mistrz i Małgorzata - Bertram Könighofer
- Mästaren och Margarita - Henrik Lange
- Le maître et Marguerite - Neyef
- The Master and Margarita - Polina Soshkina
- Master i Margarita - Aleksandr Vygalov
Excerpts
