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Fantômas. E-book. Formato EPUB Pierre Souvestre - Raven Book, 2025 -
Il brutale assassinio della marchesa di Langrune nel suo castello lascia sconcertate le autorità locali, ma il celebre ispettore parigino Juve riconosce in quel crimine la mano di Fantômas: un criminale tanto straordinariamente malvagio e sfuggente che molti lo considerano una leggenda. Seguendo la scia di omicidi, furti di gioielli ed esplosioni lasciata dall’arcicriminale, l’instancabile Juve insegue i sospetti dai sordidi bar del sottobosco criminale fino alle sale da ballo dell’alta società, usando tanti travestimenti quanti ne adotta il suo mutevole nemico, in una caccia senza tregua.Apparso nel 1911, Fantômas fu concepito quando l’editore Arthème Fayard incaricò Pierre Souvestre e Marcel Allain di creare una nuova serie capace di soddisfare l’appetito del pubblico francese per i romanzi polizieschi: personaggi come Arsène Lupin, Zigomar e Nick Carter erano già protagonisti molto amati delle pubblicazioni dell’epoca. I due autori adottarono un ingegnoso metodo di scrittura a produzione seriale, alternandosi nella redazione dei capitoli, per pubblicare un seguito ogni mese per diversi anni. Crimini elaborati, congegni tecnologici e violenze raccapriccianti resero la serie un successo tra il pubblico: i 32 volumi scritti da Souvestre e Allain vendettero oltre cinque milioni di copie.Ma Fantômas andò oltre il pubblico abituale della narrativa popolare. Avanguardisti come Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, Max Jacob e René Magritte ne elogiarono il genio, rendendogli omaggio in prosa, poesia e pittura, affascinati dalla natura surreale e immaginifica delle impossibili paradossi e delle identità mutevoli presenti nei romanzi.
The long arm of Fantômas. E-book. Formato EPUB Pierre Souvestre - Librorium Editions, 2023 -
The bank collector deposited his peaked cap on a straw-bottomed chair beside him, mopped his streaming brow, and moistening his thumb with a rapid, eminently professional movement, passed one by one between his fingers the ten big blue bank notes his debtor had just paid over to him.The heat was stifling; it was the 15th of May—settling day, and about four o’clock of the afternoon.Bernard, an employé at the Comptoir National, was nearly at the end of his day’s round when he reached M. Moche’s abode, which lay at the far end of the quartier, No. 125 Rue Saint-Fargeau.
Fantômas. E-book. Formato EPUB Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain - Gaeditori, 2020 -
Fantômas is a literary character conceived in 1911, protagonist of a series of 32 novels written by the French Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre and of a subsequent series of 11 novels by Marcel Allain alone after the co-author's death. Merciless criminal, endowed with diabolical intelligence, very skilful in disguises and megalomaniacs, he organizes complex criminal intrigues with ambitious ends. He always manages to escape his sworn enemy, Inspector Juve, and his ally, the journalist Jerôme Fandor (who, however, is also in love with Hélène, the daughter of Fantômas). Pierre Souvestre was a French car racing lawyer, journalist, writer and organizer. Today he is mostly remembered for his co-creation with Marcel Allain of the imaginary filed and criminal master Fantômas. He was born in Plomelin, a commune in Finistère, Brittany. Marcel Allain studied law before becoming a journalist. He then became the secretary of Souvestre, who was already a known figure in literary circles. In 1909 the two published their first collaborative novel, Le Rour. In February 1911 Allain and Souvestre began writing Fantômas' first novel, at the request of the publisher Arthème Fayard, who wanted to create a new monthly feuilleton magazine. The success was immediate and lasting; in 1913 the volume version of Fantômas appeared.