Black novel

The Romance black is a literary Genre born with the the United States towards 1930, in a context of social crisis and economic.

Properties

The black novel is distinguished from the detective novel by the way which leads the reader of the crime to the assassin. The traditional detective novel begin with a crime and the reader seeks to know the identity of the criminal. The black novel begin with a situation in which a criminal will evolve/move until the crime. A black novel can even be deprived of crime.

This kind often reports the business of a detective, often “deprived”, in prey him also with money problems. He faces with the daily newspaper of the badly famed places and the gangsters; he often runs up against the hostility of the official police force. This type of detective was immortalisé by the character of Sam Spade (Dashiell Hammett) or of Philip Marlowe (Raymond Chandler). Today (in 2005), of the authors as Cormac McCarthy can be attached to the kind. To the cinema, realizers like John Huston, Robert Montgomery and Howard Hawks contributed to popularize the kind of the Black film.

History

Among the French precursors of the kind, one can quote Balzac: a mysterious business (1843) or Eugene Sweats and its Mystères of Paris (1842 - 1843), but Emile Zola could perhaps also claim of it for the Pole-axe , even Therese Raquin .

In August 1944, a few days before the Release of Paris, Marcel Duhamel discovers three books; two are of Peter Cheney and the third of James Hadley Chase (both British authors). He entrusts the translation of it to Gallimard, with the idea of a collection and Jacques Prévert finds the title of it: it will be the Black series. The collection begins in 1945 and is immediately success. Into important the American work such as Horace McCoy, which had written One completes well the horses and Adieu the life good-bye the love (French version 1949), or James Cain ( the factor sounds always twice), Marcel Duhamel makes the kind popular to France.

French side, Jean Amila publishes a score of novels there. One must also mention Léo Malet for his black Trilogy. The titles summarize rather well the essence of the black novel: the life is disgusting (1948), the sun is not for us (1949), Sueur with the tripe (1969). In more the novels of André Héléna are has to mention. Philippe Porée-Kurrer, with his Quête of Nathan Barker (1994) undoubtedly opened new doors with the kind.

The French commentator par excellence will remain however Jean-Patrick Manchette. Itself author of some novels (the position of the gunner lying), it is however its work of scout for the kind as a criticism in the pages of Libération which will announce it like true the exégète black novel.

One must also announce Maurice G. Dantec which renews the kind by binding a futuristic screen to the blackness of its novels.

External bond

at the edge of the Black, site on the black novel

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