This is my latest favorite book. This book of the French author Leo Malet is the Dark Trilogy, though I couldn’t find any English translation of this trilogy. He is mostly well known with Nestor Burma novels as I see. The original French title of this book I have recently finished is “Trilogie Noire” and I would be really delighted to hear the opinions of my followers and friends who had ever read this writer. As I read from these three novellas, he is a very direct writer who depicts the darkside of Paris in mystery and crime atmospheres. The characters keep going down and all are anti-characters. The way these characters are depicted becomes more striking with the events happening at the corrupt system. All of them tend to give you a feeling of psychological analyses of losers in a hopeless society. Woman characters sometimes turn out to be femme-fatales, sometimes emotional, sometimes dreamy, sometimes naive, sometimes sneaky. I am not actually very into writers like Dashiel Hammett or Raymond Chandler (except the Big Sleep and a couple of others I can’t remember right now) but what made me like Malet more is his great language that makes you speechless. Malet gives credit to real literature and is absolutely worth more attention.

This is my latest favorite book. This book of the French author Leo Malet is the Dark Trilogy, though I couldn’t find any English translation of this trilogy. He is mostly well known with Nestor Burma novels as I see. The original French title of this book I have recently finished is “Trilogie Noire” and I would be really delighted to hear the opinions of my followers and friends who had ever read this writer.

As I read from these three novellas, he is a very direct writer who depicts the darkside of Paris in mystery and crime atmospheres. The characters keep going down and all are anti-characters. The way these characters are depicted becomes more striking with the events happening at the corrupt system. All of them tend to give you a feeling of psychological analyses of losers in a hopeless society. Woman characters sometimes turn out to be femme-fatales, sometimes emotional, sometimes dreamy, sometimes naive, sometimes sneaky. I am not actually very into writers like Dashiel Hammett or Raymond Chandler (except the Big Sleep and a couple of others I can’t remember right now) but what made me like Malet more is his great language that makes you speechless. Malet gives credit to real literature and is absolutely worth more attention.

  1. exsouvenir said: I am intrigued. Will be adding to my list.
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