Fantomas (Penguin Classics)
by Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre
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Author: Marcel Allain, Pierre SouvestreEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-12-26
ISBN: 0143104845
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: A wonderful story
Summary: 5 Stars
Often praised by horror fans, and I can understand that, as there's much that's horrific here. The typical villain/hero dynamic is broadened and transmorgrified to be something almost beyond sense -- characters shift, disguise themselves, seemingly change their very nature. It should absolutely fail, it should make no sense whatsoever, but the wonder and the beauty of FANTOMAS, a pulp novel written serially, is that it suggests a terrifying sort of sense by its close, it hints and implies a horrible truth that we dare not utter.
Yes, a scholarly edition of this would've been nice, but unlike some popular French novels of this period (I'm thinking of THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM, in particular) it's pretty approachable.
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