« Pour me réveiller, on m'acheta des livres. »
4 June 2026 The panel (above) comes from Marjane Satrapi's critically acclaimed graphic novel, Persepolis. The text inside the speech bubble reads: « Pour me réveiller, on m'acheta des livres » ("To awaken me, they bought me books"). This is a direct quotation from Simone de Beauvoir's 1958 autobiography, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter). Satrapi embeds this prose into the visual landscape of her graphic memoir, connecting her own coming-of-ag
