San-Antonio

Réglez-lui son compte !

Kill Him!

March 21, 2019
Detective Fiction
320 pages
140 × 210 mm
17,90 €
9782265144026
978-2-2651-4402-6
Art cover by Joann Sfar
									San-Antonio, Réglez-lui son compte !
									San-Antonio, Réglez-lui son compte !

“If your grandmother ever asks you the name of the smartest guy on earth, tell her without hesitation for a couple of minutes that the guy’s name is San-Antonio.”
The very first San-Antonio!

This was the opening sentence of the first San-Antonio in 1949, two stories brought together under the title Kill Him! in which, behind the simple plot, one already reads the truculence of the language, the energy of the right verb, the humour, the fighting spirit, falsely nonchalant, and above all: the innovative requirement. For Frédéric Dard made words a playground in perpetual motion, and he hated nothing more than imagining a language that would be covered with strips, mummified, suffocated by convention and... boredom. Boredom is over with the Dard saga, whose first episode is being re-released (with beautiful new clothes) by Le Fleuve.

The author

Born in 1921, Frédéric Dard published his first book in 1940. It was nine years later, at the time when the black novel was flourishing in France, that Kill Him! was published, the first in a series of 175 titles featuring Commissioner San-Antonio, a pseudonymous character who would enter the Pantheon of Popular Heroes of French Literature. From the outset, Frédéric Dard imposed a unique work, destined to become ever more tasty and original, a work in which the work on language, in particular, holds a primordial place. Alongside the San-Antonio, Frédéric Dard published, under his own name or under other pseudonyms, a large number of novels of different genres. In all, nearly 300 books make him one of the most prolific writers of the second half of the twentieth century, and his work—which is complemented by collaborations in theatre, television and cinema—is one of the heritages of French literature. Frédéric Dard died on June 6, 2000, at the age of 78.

The edition

Preface by Thierry Gautier.

March 21, 2019
Detective Fiction
320 pages
140 × 210 mm
17,90 €
9782265144026
978-2-2651-4402-6
Art cover by Joann Sfar