No ticket to death
No ticket for death (original title: Casse-pipe à la Nation ) is a crime novel by the French writer Léo Malet about his investigator Nestor Burma , which was published in 1957 and first published in 1987 in a German translation by Hans-Joachim Hartstein.
action
The story takes place in 1957 in the 12th arrondissement in Paris during a rainy and changeable May month .
The novel begins at the Gare de Lyon , a setting that often plays a role in Malet's novels, especially since it was the contact point for many immigrants from the south of France who give the 12th arrondissement its character. Malet himself comes from Montpellier in the south of France .
But the real urban focal point in this Parisian crime novel is the fair at the Foire du Trône, which at that time was still on the Place de la Nation . There, Burma is almost the victim of an assassination attempt during its investigation into a robbery . It looks like a wine merchant is risking everything to kill his stepdaughter .
expenditure
- Léo Malet: No ticket for death . Elster Verlag, Bühl-Moos 1987, ISBN 3-89151-041-1 , 191 pp.
- Léo Malet: No ticket for death . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-499-12890-X .
background
Many of the sights Malet described in this way no longer exist in modern Paris. The Bercy district in particular has changed significantly.
Peter Stephan supplemented the German-language edition of the Elster Verlag with a literary " Nachgang " including a street map in which the changes in the 12th arrondissement and its locations 30 years later were illuminated. This was also to be found in the later paperback edition of the Rowohlt Verlag, but was missing from the complete edition of the two-thousand-one publishing house for copyright reasons .
reception
Comic
The comic artist Jacques Tardi , who was friends with Malet , published a graphic novel of the story in 1997 , which was extremely well received by the public and critics.
filming
In the French television series Nestor Burma with Guy Marchand in the title role, Casse-pipe à la Nation (director: Claude Grinberg) was filmed under its original title in 1992 and first broadcast on December 11, 1992.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Today it is on the Bois de Vincennes . See: http://www.online-in-paris.de/paris/paris_12/paris_12.html
- ↑ The playfulness and rigor of the old masters: Two new volumes by the comic artist Jacques Tardi . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 7, 1998, No. 32 / p. 34. Léo Malet / Jacques Tardi: Nestor Burma: No ticket for death . Translated from the French by Wolfgang Bortlik. edition modern, Zurich 1997.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0658865/