by David Goodis · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070383818
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«Cauchemar» is the noir novel by David Goodis translated from English (Dark Passage), published by Folio in paperback in French.
A man convicted of his wife's murder escapes from prison and adopts a different identity to try to prove his innocence. The novel turns that escape into an evocation of urban fear and loneliness, with an oppressive atmosphere and the pulse of American noir.
The original work by David Goodis was published in 1946. This French Folio edition from 1991 uses the translation by Gilles Malar and Noël Chassériau and has 288 pages.
For readers of classic noir and crime stories with a psychological undercurrent.
David Loeb Goodis was an American writer of crime fiction noted for his output of short stories and novels in the noir fiction genre. Born in Philadelphia, Goodis alternately resided there and in New York City and Hollywood during his professional years. According to critic Dennis Drabelle, "Despite his [university] education, a combination of ethnicity (Jewish) and temperament allowed him to empathize with outsiders: the working poor, the unjustly accused, fugitives, criminals."
