{"id":526078,"date":"2024-12-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=526078"},"modified":"2024-12-21T11:34:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T10:34:57","slug":"jubilant-dictionary-of-villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/jubilant-dictionary-of-villains\/","title":{"rendered":"Villains are his great passion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popularized under the pseudonym L'Odieux Connard, Julien Hervieux claims the slogan \u00abQu'il est bon d'\u00eatre mauvais!\u00bb (\"It's good to be bad!\"). In his new book, he dismantles with relish the greatest villains of all time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Fiction, like history, loves heroes. And yet, nothing adds as much depth to a story as a good villain. What would Batman be without the Joker? Luke Skywalker without Darth Vader? Clarice Starling without Hannibal Lecter? It's these great villains who really add salt to the story and drive the narrative forward. And fiction has been quick to seize on these characters, with an increasing number of films and series on their origins, trying to explain how an innocent child became, one day, a horrible psychopath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In real life, too, villains abound. They even now have their own primer listing the biggest bastards of the last two millennia, thanks to the A jubilant dictionary of history's villains<\/em>, published by Harper Collins. The author, Julien Hervieux, has once again teamed up with the cartoonist Monsieur le Chien, with whom he had previously collaborated on Small theater of operations<\/em>, by publishing comic strips dedicated to the two world wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n