Re-inventing the Origins of the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow up: Regis Loisel's 'Peter Pan'

Régis Loisel's Peter Pan (Vents d'Ouest, 1990-2004) is a striking re-formulation of the origins of this mythical character due to its stylistic, narrative and thematic darkness. This article uses Loisel's bande dessinée to examine the potential of comics as an adaptive medium, and the reading process of the comic prequel, two aspects which are productively linked by the concept of the network. 1 draw on Sanders'and Groensteen's uses of the concept in adaptation studies and comics studies respectively, to reflect on both the way that Loisel's bande dessinée is connected to the network of proliferating Peter Pan narratives, and the way in which the comic functions as a network itself, engaging the reader in a translinear and plurivectoral reading. This article first explores how core elements of the well-known Peter Pan narrative are adapted in Loisel's comic, both echoing and contrasting with previous versions as Loisel's bande dessinée engages with and re-formulates the character's textual and visual multiplicities from the network of Peter Pan narratives. This article then draws on Paul Sutton's theorization of the 'dual temporality' of the prequel to reflect on the reading process of Loisel's Peter Pan as a comic prequel that productively uses the nature of a comic as a network, and its potential for translinear and plurivectoral reading. Loisel's Peter Pan engages the reader in an active, retrospective, prospective and anticipatory reading process, in a dynamic of repetition and difference

Cinematic Voices in Louis Malle’s Adaptation of Raymond Queneau's Zazie dans le metro

This article examines the relationship between cinematic voices and bodies in Louis Malle�s film adaptation of Raymond Queneau�s Zazie dans le métro/Zazie in the Metro. It analyzes how the medium of film not only limits but also opens up possibilities in the transposition of voice. It first explores the implications of post-synchronization in the film in the heterogeneous relationship between the cinematic voices and bodies, placing the film�s experimentation with voice in its historical New Wave context. It then examines how, as post-synchronization questions the belonging of voices to bodies, the relationship between voices and words is also challenged in a film that posits itself as an adaptation through processes of repetition and recitation. It concludes with an analysis of the potential powers of cinematic voice(s) arising out of the heterogeneity between voices and bodies in film, as voice oscillates between object and event. This article suggests that Malle�s adaptation presents us with a powerful case study for the complex and irrational relationship between cinematic voices and bodies

Adapted Voices: Tranpositions of Celine's 'Voyage au bout de la nuit' and Queneau's 'Zazie dans le metro'

Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961), and Zazie dans le métro (1959), by Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), were two revolutionary novels in their transposition of spoken language into written language. Since their publication they have been adapted into a broad range of media, including illustrated novel, bande dessinée, film, stage performance and recorded reading. What happens to their striking literary voices as they are transposed into media that combine text and image, sound and image, or consist of sound alone? In this study, Armelle Blin-Rolland examines adaptations sparked by these two seminal novels to understand what voice means in each medium, and its importance in the process of adaptation

Clinical and genetic characteristics of late-onset Huntington's disease

Background: The frequency of late-onset Huntington's disease (>59 years) is assumed to be low and the clinical course milder. However, previous literature on late-onset disease is scarce and inconclusive. Objective: Our aim is to study clinical characteristics of late-onset compared to common-onset HD patients in a large cohort of HD patients from the Registry database. Methods: Participants with late- and common-onset (30\u201350 years)were compared for first clinical symptoms, disease progression, CAG repeat size and family history. Participants with a missing CAG repeat size, a repeat size of 6435 or a UHDRS motor score of 645 were excluded. Results: Of 6007 eligible participants, 687 had late-onset (11.4%) and 3216 (53.5%) common-onset HD. Late-onset (n = 577) had significantly more gait and balance problems as first symptom compared to common-onset (n = 2408) (P <.001). Overall motor and cognitive performance (P <.001) were worse, however only disease motor progression was slower (coefficient, 120.58; SE 0.16; P <.001) compared to the common-onset group. Repeat size was significantly lower in the late-onset (n = 40.8; SD 1.6) compared to common-onset (n = 44.4; SD 2.8) (P <.001). Fewer late-onset patients (n = 451) had a positive family history compared to common-onset (n = 2940) (P <.001). Conclusions: Late-onset patients present more frequently with gait and balance problems as first symptom, and disease progression is not milder compared to common-onset HD patients apart from motor progression. The family history is likely to be negative, which might make diagnosing HD more difficult in this population. However, the balance and gait problems might be helpful in diagnosing HD in elderly patients