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Old 12-12-2013, 02:36 PM   #31
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A quote from the lead article says a lot:

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"Personally I am fed up with all the stereotypes," says Darrieussecq. "We're not intellectual. We're not obsessed with words. We write detective stories. We write suspense. We write romance.

"And it's about time you started noticing."
The author lays the blame with Anglophone readers that French literature is not being noticed. This attitude of entitlement pervades French literature.
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Old 12-12-2013, 11:49 PM   #32
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Georges Simenon crime novels were immensely popular in English translation in the mid to late C20th and are still well worth reading.
One of his best literary heirs is Sebastian Japrisot. Quite a number of his books have been translated, but I don't see too many in ebook form. This is a big gap, he's a terrific writer.
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Old 12-13-2013, 01:19 AM   #33
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Georges Simenon crime novels were immensely popular in English translation in the mid to late C20th and are still well worth reading.
One of his best literary heirs is Sebastian Japrisot. Quite a number of his books have been translated, but I don't see too many in ebook form. This is a big gap, he's a terrific writer.
Simenon is my favourite writer of detective novels, so I'm glad to find out about Japrisot from you. Ha! I see from his Wikipedia page that he translated many Hopalong Cassidy novels. I like him already! I only hope that I can find his crime fiction novels in English.
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Old 12-13-2013, 12:36 PM   #34
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Georges Simenon crime novels were immensely popular in English translation in the mid to late C20th and are still well worth reading.
One of his best literary heirs is Sebastian Japrisot. Quite a number of his books have been translated, but I don't see too many in ebook form. This is a big gap, he's a terrific writer.
Thanks for the recommendation.
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Also, have a look at Fred Vargas. Her crime novels are entertaining and quirky and very French.
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