‘Suite noire' is an allusion to the ‘Serie
Noire', which, of course, still exists. With its large format it's
moving away from the popular paperback so dear to its creator,
Marcel Duhamel.
Jean Bernard Pouy, another fierce defender of popular literature,
has created and taken charge of this new collection.
Two-toned hardback covers, with titles
that are a play on words or an allusion to other famous crime novels
and short texts with a tendency towards the hard-boiled are all
put in place to remind us of its respectable ancestor created in
1945…
On 8th June those of a nostalgic
nature discovered, with a tear in their eye and a sardonic smile
on their lips, the first three books: ‘On achève
bien les disc-jockeys' (We easily kill off disc jockeys)
by Didier Daeninckx ; ‘Quand
la ville mord' (When the town
bites back) by Marc Villard ; ‘Le débarcadère
des anges'
(The angels' landing stage) by Patrick Raynal.
Each novel is ‘fixed' at 98 pages, reminding the reader of the template
imposed a long time ago on the manuscripts for the ‘Série
Noire'.
10 Euros: not quite the price
of a paperback that one would leave on a train seat, but still a
reasonable price for the discovery of this collection.
