| Title: | Marseille noir: Jean-Claude Izzo and the Mediterranean detective |
| Authors: | Smyth, Edmund J. |
| Citation: | Romance studies, 2007, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 111-121 |
| Publisher: | Maney Publishing |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2173/91027 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/174581507x193009 |
| Additional Links: | http://maney.co.uk/index.php/journals/ros/ |
| Abstract: | This article examines the noir cityscape which unfolds in Jean-Claude Izzo's Fabio Montale trilogy of novels set in Marseille — Total Khéops (1995), Chourmo (1996), and Solea (1998). There is a discussion of the role of Marseille and the Mediterranean in the trilogy published in the 'Série Noire', and specifically the manner in which Montale is presented as a Mediterranean detective. An analysis is provided of the trilogy as néo-polar, as roman noir engagé, and as an existential roman noir métaphysique. |
| Type: | Article |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Romance Studies, published by and copyright Maney Publishing. |
| ISSN: | 0263-9904
1745-8153 |
| Appears in Collections: | Centre for European Literatures and Cultures (CELC)
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