The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture

Thrilling absorbing and full of bizarre plot twists and motivations the roman noir is crime fiction at its most exciting. In this lively introduction to the post-war French roman noir Claire Gorrara challenges preconceptions about the roman noir as little more than a populist form of crime fiction and examines how selected writers have appropriated it as a critical response to formative concerns and debates in post-war French society.