by Chester Himes · 10-18 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264006219
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«Noir sur noir» is Chester Himes's collection of noir crime stories, published by 10-18 in paperback (250 pages, in French).
It brings together stories set in the toughest Harlem, where the author portrays a racist and merciless America through marginal characters, swindlers and criminals. The dry, violent prose conveys an atmosphere of crime and despair without concessions, close to the film noir of the 1940s.
It belongs to the «Domaine Etrange» collection from 10-18 (no. 1648), edited by Christian Bourgois. 1984 edition.
For readers of crime fiction and classic cinema who want a raw vision of mid-20th-century Harlem.
Chester Bomar Himes was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the 1950s and early 1960s and featuring two black policemen called Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. In 1958, Himes won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
