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Michel Bussi (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl bysi]; born () 29 April 1965) is a French author, known for writing thriller novels, and a political analyst and Professor of Geography at the University of Rouen, [1] where he leads a Public Scientific and Technical Research Establishment (French: Unité mixte de recherche, "UMR") in the French National Centre for Scientific Research (French ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (French: Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers) is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne.It is often considered a classic within both its genres and world literature.
In her 1999 book May 68 in French Fiction and Film: Rethinking Society, Rethinking Representation, Margaret Atack sees Nada as Chabrol's exploration of the "weakness of the bourgeoisie" [7] [8] through the suspense format of the social thriller, [9] which overlaps with film noir in Chabrol's obsession with the "very fine line between good and ...
Jean-Patrick Manchette (19 December 1942, Marseille – 3 June 1995, Paris [1]) was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of that period.
Malevil is a 1972 science fiction novel by French writer Robert Merle. It was adapted into a 1981 film directed by Christian de Chalonge and starring Michel Serrault , Jacques Dutronc , Jacques Villeret and Jean-Louis Trintignant .
The novel appears to have been inspired by one of the last groundbreaking works of Henry Rider Haggard, When the World Shook (1919). There are several similarities between the stories: a couple that is found in suspended animation with both, female and male, being survivors of ancient lost civilizations that possessed great technological advancements superior to the current stage of our world ...
The books predicted some events such as the capture of Carlos the Jackal, assassination of Anwar Sadat, and events of the Syrian Civil War. Robert F. Worth , former Beirut bureau chief for The New York Times , was amazed to read in La Liste Hariri details of the assassination of Rafic Hariri that no journalist knew when the book appeared.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (French: L'Élégance du hérisson) is a novel by the French novelist and philosophy teacher [1] Muriel Barbery.The book follows events in the life of a concierge, Renée Michel, whose deliberately concealed intelligence is uncovered by an unstable but intellectually precocious girl named Paloma Josse.