The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture: Dark Fictions

ISBN-13: 9780199246090 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 144 str.

Claire Gorrara

Opis

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.

Recenzje

...as a highly readable starting point for those wishing to research aspects of French crime fiction, and as a student-friendly survey of themes and trends in post-war French culture, this study has much to recommend it.

O autorze

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).