by Sébastien Japrisot · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429720815
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«Adéu, amic» is the crime novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (96 pages, in Catalan).
A man must return some securities to a safe located in a labyrinthine basement, guarded by guards and photoelectric cells, and has three days to do it. The appearance of an unwelcome companion complicates the risky undertaking, while a seductive woman and a guilty conscience push him toward a game of deceit that may end in murder.
Translation by Carme Vilaginés; part of the La Cua de Palla collection (no. 30). The original work, «Adieu l'ami», was published in 1968.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
