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Nodo alle budella
1969
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Paul Blondel sogna tutte le notti un piccolo uomo grigio. Quella figura, che non conosce e non sa da dove tragga origine, è diventata un incubo che gli impedisce di trovare riposo. Per dargli corpo, Blondel rivive le ultime settimane della propria vita, da quando, piccolo truffatore, ha conosciuto Jeanne, una ragazza bellissima, nata per la passione, e per amore di lei ha fatto il passo più lungo della gamba, aumentando la portata delle proprie truffe, e finendo in una banda dedita a furti e rapine. Il piccolo uomo grigio si materializzerà in seguito, quando Blondel avrà finito di ricordare. E l’incubo, fino ad allora riservato ai sogni, prenderà una nuova forma e cambierà per sempre le sue giornate costringendolo a una fuga senza speranza da chi lo ha tradito, da chi gli addebita anche i crimini che non ha commesso, e soprattutto dalla propria sconfitta di uomo. Ultimo capitolo della Trilogie Noire, Nodo alle budella, finora inedito in Italia, ne è l’atto finale amarissimo e disperato, uno dei vertici assoluti dell’intera opera narrativa di Léo Malet. «C’era un solo cuore, e stavo per sputarlo fuori; un solo stomaco, e talmente chiuso che non si sarebbe più aperto. Ricominciavo, molto semplicemente – e seriamente – a farmela sotto».

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Leo Malet
Leo Malet
Author · 16 books

Léo Malet est né à Montpellier en 1909. Attiré par l'écriture et l'anarchie, il décide à l'âge de 16 ans de « monter » à Paris, ou pour survivre il effectue une multitude de petits métiers. En 1930, il fait la connaissance d'André Breton et découvre le surréalisme, dont il devient un familier. Après la guerre, Léo Malet rencontre Louis Chavance qui lui suggère d'écrire des romans policiers, un genre encore inexistant en France. Malet produit alors d'alertes contrefaçons de Hard boiled américains qu'il signe des pseudonymes de Frank Harding ou Léo Latimer. En 1943, il publie sous son véritable nom, 120 rue de la gare, un roman policier très français qui met en scène pour la première fois l'illustre Nestor Burma. C'est en 1953, lors d'une promenade, que Léo Malet aura l'idée de faire de son privé un nouveau « piéton de Paris ». Le soleil naît derrière le Louvre inaugure la série des Nouveaux Mystères de Paris, un an après. Chroniques réalistes de la vie des quartiers parisiens, Les Nouveaux Mystères de Paris donnent définitivement à son personnage ses lettres de noblesse. Avec 55 titres (dont 29 consacrés à Nestor Burma), Léo Malet a bien mérité des Lettres françaises. Il est mort en 1996. (source: Pocket.fr) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Leo Malet was born in Montpellier. He had little formal education and began work as a cabaret singer at "La Vache Enragee" in Montmartre, Paris in 1925. In the 1930s, he was closely aligned with the Surrealists, and was close friends with André Breton, René Magritte and Yves Tanguy, amongst others. During this time, he published several volumes of poetry. He died in Châtillon, a little town just south of Paris where he had lived for most of his life, four days before his 87th birthday. Though having dabbled in many genres, he is most famous for Nestor Burma, the anti-hero of Les Nouveaux Mystères de Paris. Burma, a cynical private detective, is an astute speaker of argot (French slang), an ex-Anarchist, a serial monogamist and an inveterate pipe smoker. Of the 33 novels detailing his adventures, eighteen take place in a sole arrondissement of Paris, in a sub-series of his exploits which Malet dubbed the "New Mysteries of Paris" quoting Eugene Sue's seminal "feuilleton"; though he never completed the full 20 arrondissements as he originally planned. Apart from the novels, five short stories were also published, bringing the total of Burma's adventures to 38. The comic artist Jacques Tardi adapted some of his books much to the author's approval claiming that he was the sole person to have visually understood his books; Tardi also provided cover illustrations for the Fleuve Noir editions of the novels, released from the 1980s onward.

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