by Sébastien Japrisot · Profrance · tapa dura · ISBN 9782743403621
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«Le passager de la pluie» is the suspense novel by French writer and screenwriter Sébastien Japrisot, published by Profrance in hardback (165 pages, in French).
Set in a small seaside resort in autumn, it tells how Mellie, a young woman married to an airline navigator, sees her quiet life disrupted one rainy night when a mysterious bus passenger surprises her at home. From that encounter, the novel weaves a tense psychological plot, between suspense and crime fiction, in which Mellie must confront her own secrets and a danger that won't let her go.
This Profrance edition, published in 1995, is the novelization Japrisot wrote from his own screenplay for the film of the same name, directed by René Clément and starring Marlène Jobert and Charles Bronson.
For readers of psychological thrillers and crime fiction, and for those who know the film of the same name by René Clément.
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.
