La curée

In La curée, Éric Stalner adapts Émile Zola’s classic novel of Second Empire excess for a modern comics audience, co-writing with Cédric Simon for Les Arènes. Launched in 2019, this single-issue graphic novel brings Stalner’s atmospheric art to Zola’s tale of greed and ambition, distilling the original’s critique of Parisian high society into a visually striking standalone work. It stands as a focused, literary-minded entry in the publisher’s catalog, offering longtime fans of the novel a fresh visual interpretation.