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Sébastien Japrisot. The Art of Crime

Sébastien Japrisot. The Art of Crime

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Site web de la maison d'édition)

HURCOMBE, Martin et Simon KEMP (dir.), Sébastien Japrisot. The Art of Crime, Amsterdam / New York, Rodopi (Faux Titre), 2009, 190 p.

ISBN 978-90-420-2534-9

RÉSUMÉ

Influential author of highly unconventional crime fiction,screenwriter, and occasional film director, Sébastien Japrisot was oneof those rare contemporary writers in France able to establish aninternational reputation for himself. Although Japrisot's novels inparticular continue to be read and studied across the world, thisvolume is the first ever academic study of Japrisot's work in thefields of both literature and cinema. Through a combination of thematicand text-specific studies, this volume takes in, and examines thelegacy of, Japrisot's work from his youthful writings under his realname, Jean-Baptiste Rossi, to his crime fiction and screen writings ofthe 1960s and 1970s, concluding with his final novel Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement).It is both an essential introduction to Japrisot and a valuableacademic assessment of his work's importance in the field ofcontemporary French literature and film.

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Jacques DUBOIS: Preface
Martin HURCOMBE and Simon KEMP: Introduction
Part I
Martin HURCOMBE: Conflicting Testimonies: Dialogic Oppositions in Japrisot's Suspense Novels
Véronique DESNAIN: Sébastien et les femmes: Gender and Identity in the Crime Novels of Sébastien Japrisot
Simon KEMP: Japrisot on Film
Part II
Victoria BEST: Patterns of Submission and Domination: from Jean-Baptiste Rossi to Sébastien Japrisot
Susan M. MYERS: An Allegory of Reading: Ambiguity, Discovery, and the Reader's Role in Piège pour Cendrillon
Yolanda VIÑAS DEL PALACIO: Sébastien Japrisot: Adventures in Reading and Writing
David BELLOS: The Lesson of L'Été meurtrier
Claire GORRARA: Through the Looking Glass: Defeats of Detection in Sébastien Japrisot's L'Été meurtrier
Andrea GOULET: Things Buried: Crypt and Cryptonym in Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Appendix
Index