Sébastien Japrisot : : the art of crime / / edited by Martin Hurcombe and Simon Kemp.

• Superior document: Faux titre, 329
• TeilnehmendeR: Hurcombe, Martin.; Kemp, Simon, 1973-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Faux Titre 329.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: "This project was first conceived at a conference held at the University of Bristol in September 2005"--Acknowledgements.

Influential author of highly unconventional crime fiction, screenwriter, and occasional film director, Sébastien Japrisot was one of those rare contemporary writers in France able to establish an international reputation for himself. Although Japrisot’s novels in particular continue to be read and studied across the world, this volume is the first ever academic study of Japrisot’s work in the fields of both literature and cinema. Through a combination of thematic and text-specific studies, this volume takes in, and examines the legacy of, Japrisot’s work from his youthful writings under his real name, Jean-Baptiste Rossi, to his crime fiction and screen writings of the 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 valuable academic assessment of his work’s importance in the field of contemporary French literature and film.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Preface / Jacques Dubois -- Introduction / Martin Hurcombe and Simon Kemp -- Conflicting Testimonies: Dialogic Oppositions in Japrisot's Suspense Novels / Martin Hurcombe -- Sebastien et Les Femmes: Gender and Identity in The Crime Novels of Sébastien Japrisot / Veronique Desnain -- Japrisot on Film / Simon Kemp -- Patterns of Submission and Domination: from Jean-Baptiste Rossi to Sébastien Japrisot / Victoria Best -- An Allegory of Reading: Ambiguity, Discovery, and the Reader's Role in Piège pour Cendrillon / Susan M. Myers -- Sébastien Japrisot: Adventures in Reading and Writing / Yolanda Viñas Del Palacio -- The Lesson of L'Été meurtrier / David Bellos -- Through the Looking Glass: Defeats of Détection in Sébastien Japrisot's L'Été meurtrier / Claire Gorrara -- Things Buried: Crypt and Cryptonym in Un long dimanche De fiançailles / Andrea Goulet -- Contributors' Details -- Index.