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Commissaire Adamsberg #6-8

La seconda trilogia Adamsberg: Sotto i venti di Nettuno - Nei boschi eterni - Un luogo incerto

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Dopo La trilogia Adamsberg, che raccoglieva le prime indagini del commissario antirazionale, flemmatico e un po' filosofo creato da Fred Vargas, questo volume raccoglie i tre romanzi successivi, quelli che ne hanno segnato la definitiva consacrazione, e hanno trasformato la fortunata serie in un vero caso letterario. In Sotto i venti di Nettuno Adamsberg, oltre a dover risolvere una catena di omicidi tutti uguali, deve fare i conti con un passato che sembra tornato per rovinargli la vita. Il fantasma di una monaca del Settecento, al centro di Nei boschi eterni, catapulta, invece, il nostro «spalatore di nuvole» in una Francia esoterica, di scure e vivissime credenze, tra cadaveri profanati per estrarne misteriose pozioni magiche che assicurano la vita eterna, a costo di orrendi delitti. Infine, in Un luogo incerto, il ritrovamento di diciassette piedi spinge Adamsberg a percorrere un'Europa dove, dopo quasi trecento anni, la stirpe di Dracula non ha smesso di infestare il mondo.

1024 pages, Paperback

First published May 20, 2014

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Fred Vargas

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Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of the French historian, archaeologist and writer Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (often mistakenly spelled "Audouin-Rouzeau"). She is the daughter of Philippe Audoin(-Rouzeau), a surrealist writer who was close to André Breton, and the sister of the historian Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, a noted specialist of the First World War who inspired her the character of Lucien Devernois.

Archeo-zoologist and historian by trade, she undertook a project on the epidemiology of the Black Death and bubonic plague, the result of which was a scientific work published in 2003 and still considered definitive in this research area: Les chemins de la peste : Le rat la puce et l'homme (Pest Roads).

As a novelist, Fred Vargas writes mostly crime stories. She found writing was a way to combine her interests and relax from her job as a scientist. Her novels are set in Paris and feature the adventures of Chief Inspector Adamsberg and his team. Her interest in the Middle Ages is manifest in many of her novels, especially through the person of Marc Vandoosler, a young specialist in the period.

She separated her public persona as a writer from her scientific persona by adopting the pseudonym Fred Vargas. "Fred" is the diminutive of her given name, Frédérique, while with "Vargas", she has chosen the same pseudonym than her twin sister, Jo Vargas (pseudonym of Joëlle Audoin-Rouzeau), a painter. For both sisters, the pseudonym "Vargas" derives from the Ava Gardner character in "The Barefoot Contessa".

Her crime fiction policiers have won three International Dagger Awards from the Crime Writers Association, for three successive novels: in 2006, 2008 and 2009. She is the first author to achieve such an honor. In each case her translator into English has been Sîan Leonard, who was also recognized by the international award.

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Queste tre storie sono davvero particolari. Conoscere il Commissario aiuta ad apprezzarlo sempre un po’ di più, con le sue stranezze e le sue mancanze; in questi libri rivela tutte le sue fragilità e per questo lo sentiamo più vicino.
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