by Sebastien Japrisot · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429721720
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«Víctimes en fals» is the crime novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (152 pages, in Catalan).
A crime novel that plays with genre conventions: although there is a robbery, a murder or a fraud, the criminal cheats and the police investigate outside the real matter. Japrisot combines suspense with the portrayal of vivid characters and maintains a measured pace to the end.
Part of the «Seleccions de la Cua de Palla» collection (no. 37). Originally published as «Compartiment tueurs», with a Catalan translation by Joaquim Carbó.
For readers of crime fiction and suspense, especially those seeking classics of the genre in Catalan.
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.
