We are happy to share that Dr Sara Martín-Alegre will be joining the upcoming International Conference on Transcultural Adaptations: Literature Beyond Borders and Toward Peace.
The event is organised by the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) and will take place online on 19 June 2026. You may contact Dr Zahra Nazemi, the Conference Director, at zahra.nazemi@uib.es to register and request access information.
Dr Sara Martín will deliver her paper “From Cormac McCarthy’s Novel to Manu Larcenet’s Graphic Novel: (Re)Designing The Road With Colour.” In her intervention, Dr Sara Martín will address Manu Larcenet’s La Route (2024), an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road (2026).
Larcenet, who scripted, drew, and coloured La route, while following McCarthy’s plot rather faithfully, offers readers a distinct visual and artistic impression of the novel’s world-building. Dr Martín argues that Larcenet (re)designs McCarthy’s world-building as the main strategy to adapt The Road with a clever, relevant use of colour. Drawing a parallel with film or TV, Larcenet acts as director, scriptwriter and, above all, production designer of his graphic novel. In this way, a dialogue is established with McCarthy’s original novel, with Larcenet re-interpreting The Road’s gritty, grey atmosphere and landscape by mostly excluding nature to focus on the representation of human-made constructions and the destruction of the human bodies found in them, turning McCarthy’s world-building into a far more anthropocentric, far less post-human environment.