num_pages: 144
description: Thrilling, absorbing, and full of bizarre plot twists and motivations, the roman noir is crime fiction at its most exciting. In this lively introduction to the post-war French roman noir, Claire Gorrara challenges preconceptions about the roman noir as little more than a populist form of crime fiction and examines how selected writers have appropriated it as a critical response to formative concerns and debates in post-war French society.
language: English
title: The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture: Dark Fictions
titlecomplete: The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture: Dark Fictions (Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Oxford University Press