by Sébastien Japrisot · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070388967
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«Le passager de la pluie» is the suspense novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Folio in paperback (176 pages, in French).
In autumn, at a seaside resort, Mellie, married to an aviator, is attacked in her home by a stranger during a rainy night. The next day, the American Harry Dobbs arrives in the village and begins to harass her. Between them, a four-day duel unfolds, no holds barred, full of deception and low blows.
The novel was adapted into a film directed by René Clément and starring Marlène Jobert and Charles Bronson. This French edition was published in 1994.
This work will appeal to readers of psychological suspense and crime fiction who want to read it in its original language.
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.
