Title : Les Valseuses - Bertrand Blier - book

Summary :

Les Valseuses tells the story of two friends, two petty criminals, Jean-Claude and Pierrot, on the road across France. Their main objective: to escape prison. Their secondary objectives: to drive cars and meet girls. They drag Marie-Ange, a carpet cleaner, along for the ride.

Written with fiery inventiveness, in a language that owes as much to Céline as to the Série noire, Les Valseuses could have shocked in 1972; this novel expressed above all an absolute taste for freedom: Its success was eclipsed by the even greater success of the film that was made from it. Fifty years after its first publication, this reissue serves as a reminder of what kind of writer Bertrand Blier is.

"It's the story of two guys who are running. They're running away from something, but they don't know what. They're also wondering what awaits them. Don't count on us to reveal it to you. There's suspense in Les Valseuses. [...] The whole thing is a riot. It's a mixture of brutal and refined. The pen snaps its fingers. The ink bubbles. A communicative verve lights up these pages. Blier alternates machine-gun dialogue with long flows of melancholy, sudden bursts of poetry. [...] French is his playground. He innovates, renews, never stops inventing."

• EAN : 9782277125433
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