Parution: David Platten, The Pleasures of Crime. Reading Modern French Crime Fiction.
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The Pleasures of Crime. Reading Modern French Crime Fiction. Platten, David Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2011, 269 pp. Pb: 978-90-420-3429-7 € 54 / US$ 73 For 150 years the French public and literati have enjoyed a love affair with crime fiction. This book investigates the nature of this relationship and how through periods of dramatic social and political change in France it has flourished. It challenges the conventional view of a popular genre feeding a niche market, depicting crime fiction...