Jésus la Caille
Jésus la Caille , German Jesus Schnepfe is a 1914 novel by Francis Carco .
The novel is set in the underworld and half-light on Montmartre in Paris and traces individual aspects of the Belle Epoque . In doing so, Carco combined his feeling for the potential of tragedy and exoticism hidden in the milieu with documentary stylistic devices and achieved a breakthrough as a writer with subjects and resources that were very modern for the time. Carco first published the novel in the Mercure de France with the support of Rachilde , the wife of the publisher Alfred Valette . He wrote most of the work in his exile-refuge , his retreat with his grandmother in Nice.
The half- and underworld characters in Francis Carco's novel include the stick boy Jesus Schnepfe, the whore Fernande, the police spy Pépé Dogge and Fernande's friend or pimp, like the author himself of Corsican descent. The novel received rather poor reviews when it came out, but became a best seller.
expenditure
- Francis Carco: Jésus la caille . Paris 1914.
- German: Jésus-la-caille. Roman from Montmarte . Kiepenheuer Verlag, Potsdam 1922 (translated by Fred Antoine Angermayer)
- German: Jesus Schnepfe . Verlag Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-88423-200-2 (translated by Hans Thill and his wife)
Adaptations
- Movie
- André Parchament (Director): M'sieur Caille '. 1955.
- theatre
- Pierre Valde: Jésus la caille . 1952 (cf. original poster).
- Jacques Darcy: Jésus la caille . 2004.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ina Hartwig : Schnürstiefelchen, Absnth and a lot of rain ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Frankfurter Rundschau from January 4, 2003 (review)
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