La carte et le territoire #[nn]

The cover of this Flammarion release draws you in with a meticulously rendered hotel room — a neatly made bed, a small dining table set with a decanter, a television, and soft curtains framing a window — while a ghostly, sketched figure hovers like a half-formed thought at the room's center. The contrast between the precisely painted interior and that translucent presence gives the image a quietly unsettling tension that feels entirely at home with the Michel Houellebecq and Louis Paillard collaboration named on the cover. Published in 2022, this graphic adaptation from Flammarion looks like a thoughtful, visually considered take on its source material.