A clochard with bad cards
A clochard with bad cards (original title: Les eaux troubles de Javel ) is a crime novel by the French writer Léo Malet about his fictional character Nestor Burma , which was published in 1957 and in 1987 in a German translation by Hans-Joachim Hartstein.
action
Nestor Burma had to investigate during the Algerian War in the 15th arrondissement of the French metropolis Paris . This arrondissement , also called Arrondissement de Vaugirard , was a working-class district in the mid-1950s, in which a large number of the “ pieds-noirs ”, the Maghreb emigrants , live and work.
A pregnant friend of the former clochard Paul Demessy who lives there asks the private detective to look for the person who has disappeared without a trace. Burma initially perceives the job as an everyday routine, as the simple factory worker Paul has got involved with the seductive Jeanne Martigny, his neighbor. But suddenly he finds himself between the fronts of Arab freedom fighters, who only use murder and bank robbery as a means of acquiring illegal weapons. It seems that Paul has played a dangerous game in which he really had "bad cards".
background
Malet had to live as a clochard for some time even in his youth.
Peter Stephan added a literary " Nachgang " to the German-language edition of the Elster Verlag , in which the changes in the 15th 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 .
expenditure
- Léo Malet: A clochard with bad cards . Translated by Hans-Joachim Hartstein, Elster-Verlag 1987, 176 pp., ISBN 978-3891510599
- Léo Malet: A clochard with bad cards . Rowohlt , Reinbek near Hamburg 1993 (= Rororo 12919), ISBN 978-3499129193
Radio play editing
In 1997, Südwestfunk produced a radio play adaptation of the same name ( Der Audio Verlag , 2005, ISBN 978-3898133890 ) with Christian Brückner as Nestor Burma and Sabine Postel as Hélène, directed by Hans Gerd Krogmann .
There is a DAISY audio book production for the blind, spoken by Elisabeth Opitz .
filming
In the French TV series Nestor Burma with Guy Marchand in the title role, Les eaux troubles de Javel (director: Alain Bloch) was filmed under its original title in 1995 and first broadcast on January 27, 1995.
supporting documents
- ↑ http://www.hoerspiele.de/hoerspiele/radioHSP/template.asp?id=291
- ↑ http://www.dzb.de/verkauf/zeitschriften/buli/0904/plus_daisy.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0658881/
