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Assassins

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«Je travaillais pour un assassin. Cette réflexion prenait toute sa valeur lorsque je me penchais sur la rivière. Je travaillais pour un assassin comme la plupart des habitants de la ville, mais personne ne disait rien.
Les fermes concernées s'étalaient sur plusieurs kilomètres en aval. Parfois, on m'attendait avec un panier plein de poissons crevés, ce qui nous faisait gagner du temps. Sinon, j'étais accompagné vers la berge et je devais me pencher sur la rivière car on tenait à me prouver que l'on ne me racontait pas des blagues. C'était pour moi un spectacle particulièrement éprouvant à cette étape de ma vie.»

288 pages, Pocket Book

First published May 3, 1994

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Philippe Djian

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Philippe Djian (born 1949 in Paris) is a popular French author of Armenian descent.
Djian graduated from the ESJ Paris. After a period of wandering and odd jobs, he published a volume of short stories, 50 contre 1 (1981), and then the novels Bleu comme l'enfer (1982) and Zone érogène (1984) before gaining fame with his subsequent novels 37°2 le matin (1985) which was filmed by Jean-Jacques Beineix (1986; English title Betty Blue), Maudit Manège (1986), Echine (1988), Crocodiles (short stories) (1989), Lent dehors (1991), Sotos (1993), and Assassins (1994).

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Djian scrive un libro gradevole ma con qualche difetto, nonostante siano solo duecento pagine di tanto in tanto si sente qualcosa che stride nelle reazioni e nelle psicologie dei personaggi.
Dopo aver letto 37° 2 al mattino Assassini risulta un'opera minore che vale la pena di leggere ma che non rappresenta la vetta della carriera di P.D.
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