Léo Malet ou le roman noir américain made in France by Crystel Pinçonnat

“…We will look at three of his best-known novels (Johnny Metal, Le Dé de jade and La Mort de Jim Licking), to show how Malet reappropriated the hard-boiled tradition through the lens of American cinema and reinvented it for the French public. A former member of the surrealist movement, Malet, in fact, did not copy but subverted the traditional aesthetics of noir fiction by injecting into it, among other things, the surrealist practice of décollage, a technique that breaks the barriers between literature and the visual arts.…”
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