Delteil's Les Écœurés: Gilets Jaunes and the Limits of the Noir.
This article is an interdisciplinary study of Gérard Delteil's Les Écœurés, a 2019 novel that was marketed as a "le premier polar en Gilet Jaune." In this essay, we explore the generic tensions that arise when murder mystery intersects with socioeconomic criticism in our age of advanced capitalism....
| Publicado en: | Contemporary French & Francophone Studies Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 232 - 257 |
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