by Sébastien Japrisot · Tapa dura · ISBN 9782738204691
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«La passion des femmes» is the mystery novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Éd. de la Seine in 1991, in French, with 409 pages.
Set in post-war France, the novel begins with the death of a young man with several names. Eight women, in testimonies collected by a female lawyer, offer contradictory versions of who he was and why he died. The reader faces a puzzle of perspectives on passion and the limits of love.
It is the sixth novel by Sébastien Japrisot, originally published in 1986; this French hardback edition is from 1991.
For readers of mystery and French literature who enjoy contradictory testimonies, female voices, and labyrinthine plots.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
