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Daeninckx has never allowed his problematic first novel to be republished. The work entitled Mort au premier tour that is currently available is a completely rewritten version that first appeared much later (Paris: Denoël, 1997). Didier Daeninckx, Meurtres pour mémoire (Paris: Gallimard, 1983). All page references in this review will be to ...
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Aug 11, 2005 · Born in 1949, Didier Daeninckx lives in Paris. Recognised as France's leading left-wing mystery writer, his work is translated into all European languages. His 1984 novel Murder in Memoriam forced the French government to try Nazi collaborators, led to a life of imprisonment for Paul Touvier and made President Mitterrand declare 16 July a day of national reflection on fascism and racism.
In fact, such is the revelatory nature of Daeninckx’s work in this area, and such is its sympathetic treatment of “madness,” that, had Erasmus not got there first, it could very easily and very pertinently have been entitled: In Praise of Folly. Didier Daeninckx, Caché dans la maison des fous (Paris: Éditions Bruno Doucey, 2015) NOTES
Jun 18, 2015 · Abstract. In February 1944, Missak Manouchian and twenty-one of his fellow Resistance fighters were executed by the Nazis. Over sixty years later, a prize-winning French author, Didier Daeninckx, is regularly depicting key members of this band of warriors in his novels, short stories, children's books, and other writings, thereby finding himself at the forefront of a veritable wave of ...
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- 2015
Sep 29, 2012 · Too fast-paced and, often, cursory, Murder in Memoriam is still a good and entertaining read -- it just feels a bit thin, especially considering the weighty subjects Daeninckx confronts head-on. French author Didier Daeninckx was born in 1949. A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Murder in Memoriam by Didier Daeninckx.
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- 1984 (Eng. 1991)
The crime novelist Didier Daeninckx originally established himself as an author of historical crime fiction. His 1984 Daeninckx, D. (1984) 2011a. Meurtres pour mémoire.
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Daeninckx the writer would like to claim.21 However, in the world in which he lives, Daeninckx turns to the polar, the detective novel, and the roman noir, the hard-boiled thriller, as his preferred modes of historical revelation. For Daeninckx, "the detective novel is always a novel that leans on the past, one always finds in them traces of ...
