Hard-Boiled Fiction Et Serie Noire: Les Metamorphoses Du Roman Policier Anglo-Americain En Francais (1945-1960) - Paperback

by Jean-Marc Gouanvic (Author)

This essay offers a sociological study of the publications of the Serie noire (NRF/Gallimard) from 1945 to 1960 based on the archives of the collection. It presents an analysis of the way the Serie noire organized the domain of the detective novel in France as well as of the semiotics of Anglo-American "hard-boiled" novels.