La Genèse

Robert Crumb’s audacious, line-for-line adaptation of the Book of Genesis, published by Denoël beginning in 2009, strips the biblical text of its traditional piety to reveal its raw, earthy, and often unsettling humanity. Working with painstaking detail over several years, Crumb illustrated every chapter and verse, from Adam and Eve to the story of Joseph, rendering patriarchs, angels, and God himself with his signature expressive, grotesque realism. This single-volume work stands as a landmark of literary comics, a scholarly yet deeply personal labor that treats the ancient text with both irreverent humor and profound respect.