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Although Daeninckx also wanted simply to write “a good detective story,”[11] and had what he considered to be a personal score to settle with Maurice Papon,[12] he firmly believed that “amnesia is an illness for countries as well as individuals.”[13] The role of Cadin, as he unearths hidden aspects of the Occupation and Algerian War ...
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However, unlike the detective story writer, the historian generally begins the narrative (if not always the research) with the past and carries a story forward.
Apr 3, 2005 · How does the book fare as a work of fiction? Inspector Cadin is Daeninckx’s cop but we aren’t really given any great sense of his character; instead, it is the story that matters. The main strand of the story involves murder and complicity in genocide and is as dark as dark can be.
Jan 1, 2010 · Daeninckx’s novel challenged official narratives that minimized the use of torture during the Algerian War and highlighted the brutalization of conscripted soldiers, the conflict’s hidden...
Aug 11, 2005 · To find the connection between the murders, Daeninckx?s hero Inspector Cadin must delve into the secret history and devastating compromises of wartime politics. Murder in Memoriam is a tense and unsettling indictment of France?s hidden past.
secrets of the past is at the heart of Daeninckx’s literary approach, whether it is thanks to the police, or a journalistic or historical investigation. In addition to his detective novels, Daeninckx wrote numerous historical novels and short stories. This novelistic production moves between the
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But why would anybody want to kill two bourgeois, politically unconnected history teachers? Didier Daeninckx has located the link between the two murders in the history that France had yet to confront -- in its colonial racism and its complicity in genocide.
