Claire Gorrara

The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture

Dark Fictions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

All the novelists studied were published initially in popular collections, such as the Serie noire, but they have been chosen for the innovation of their work and the exciting ways in which they resist tired conventions and offer new ways of representing social reality. One of the first English-language studies of this popular genre, The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture offers much more than close readings of these fascinating texts; it demonstrates the important contribution of the roman noir to the cultural histories of post-war France.

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Thrilling, absorbing, and full of bizarre plot twists and motivations, the roman noir is crime fiction at its most exciting. In this lively introduction to the post-war French roman noir, Claire Gorrara challenges preconceptions about the roman noir as little more than a populist form of crime fiction and examines how selected writers have appropriated it as a critical response to formative concerns and debates in post-war French society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 146mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780199246090
• ISBN-10: 0199246092
• Artikelnr.: 21484034

Autorenporträt

Claire Gorrara is Senior Lecturer in French at Cardiff University. She is author of French Women's Writing and the Occupation in Post-1968 France (Macmillan, 1998) and co-editor of European Memories of the Second World War (Berghahn, 1998) and France Since the Revolution: Texts and Contexts (Arnold, forthcoming 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Origins and beginnings: Léo Malet's 120, rue de la Gare (1943)
* 2: Criminal Intentions: Film Noir and Les Diabioliques (1955)
* 3: Counter-Cultural Politics: Jean-Patrick Manchette's Le Petit Bleu
de la côte ouest (1976)
* 4: Historical investigations: Didier Daenickx's Meurtres pour mémoire
(1984)
* 5: Telling Tales: Daniel Pennac's La Fée Carabine (1987)
* 6: Feminist fictions: Maud Tabachnik's Un été pourri (1994)
* Conclusion
* Select Bibliography
* Index