Non-meurtre (French Edition)
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Seton says the novels are effectively untranslatable: French readers have not been overly interested in just how a Simenon or a Dard achieved their massive output. They just want more; they are the beast that must be fed. They push on towards the end not worrying too much about finer details.
We are told at the start that a spy will not confess to the authorities despite torture; that he is to be sent to prison; that an undercover policeman will befriend him posing as a fellow inmate; that they will jointly plan an escape; that the spy will then lead the cop to whoever is his master.
The story simply powers on for pages or so. The conceit is that until the end we are never sure which of the two men in the jail cell—Frank and Hal—is the spy and which the cop.
Invariably, in both the San Antonio series and the stand-alone novels, like The Wicked Go to Hell , the state is a shadowy figure; its enemies shadowier and unidentified; torture and beatings are routine; the justice system absent in any formal sense; accountability non-existent. In the last two decades of rendition, black ops, media blackouts, Guantanamo and now somewhat vague repeated Executive Orders, these dark noirs , emphasizing a lack of accuracy and accountability, feel very contemporary. The Wicked Go to Hell was written several years into the Algerian War of Independence , a particularly dirty colonial liberation struggle.
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That war saw a spate of extra-judicial killings by the French State, not just in North Africa, but in the heart of Paris with the killings on the Saint-Michel bridge of protesting Algerians. In the French State finally admitted to the extra-judicial killing of 40 Algerians in France—campaigners believe the number was closer to Dard, like Simenon, lived through the Occupation and the messy business of resistance and collaboration.
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An impressive score […], although this never happened officially. There is no proof. No trace of these forty-eight bodies […]. Everything was consigned to the vaults of History and forgotten.
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Witness this allusion which gives only some of the shocking details presented to the monograph that Roger Thiraud was writing:. On 20 August , the flats of La Muette in Drancy were officially transformed into a concentration camp to hold French Jews prior to their deportation to Germany and occupied Poland.
Roger Thiraud quoted the figure of 76, people, including women, children and the elderly, who were rounded up over three years within a few kilometres of the Place de la Concorde, and then deported to Auschwitz. He put the number of those who came back at less than 2, Every week, three thousand people passed through Drancy, guarded by four German soldiers assisted by a few dozen French auxiliaries. Roger Thiraud had underlined the figure four. Indeed, to the perhaps better-informed readers of today, such links will already have been inferred from the way in which the French police and CRS deal with the pro-Algeria marchers.
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Then, as if these parallels with the Occupation were not clear enough, one night, as Cadin sleeps, his mind relives his investigation as a nightmare, in which Algerians have replaced the Jews in the railway cattle trucks pp. Papon was, precisely, the epitome of the faceless, murderous bureaucrat whom Daeninckx has denounced elsewhere: Not for nothing does the epigraph to the book, in a restatement of the words of philosopher George Santayana, insist: Yet despite all of this, Daeninckx, as he regularly stresses, is not a historian.
He is a novelist, and as such he is able to deploy a host of literary devices to reinforce his central points, and make them broader based and more subtly compelling. A whole raft of apparently minor details thus take on secondary, more allusive meanings, as the following examples will serve to demonstrate. When the CRS violently attack the Algerian demonstrators, the play on the bill of the nearby theatre is Goodbye Prudence. The most striking image of all, however, is the famous one with which the novel ends. At the Bonne-Nouvelle metro station linked to the police brutality in , an Algerian worker scrapes away posters which, for decades, have been pasted one on top of the other, and he eventually uncovers fragments of a German text associated with the persecution of Jews.
This particularly rich metaphor acts as a perfect conclusion to a number of the key strands in the novel: The novel indirectly illustrates the methodology of the historian, who, like the detective, is a searcher after truth, focusing on traces and fragments, journeying through time and memory to counter oblivion and reconstruct events. In conclusion, there is one final reason why this novel is worth studying. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email.
Le tueur en série Michel Fourniret a avoué les meurtres de deux femmes
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