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Touchez pas au grisbi albert simonin8/28/2023 Jacques Becker's rapid adaptation of Touchez pas au Grisbi also established Simonin as a film director. His approach was more literary than that of Le Breton, who really did frequent the underworld. The reasons for his imprisonment were sealed and it was said that he had learnt slang from his fellow prisoners, but there were many rumours about it. Was slang in the noir novel becoming a trend?Īuguste Le Breton was also very successful with his book, Du Rififi chez les hommes, but critics differentiated between the two novelists and their use of slang Simonin was a stylist, he had never known the world of the mobsters he wrote about. The publication was an immediate success and became the best-seller of the Série Noire. He was released in 1949 and in 1952, he wrote Touchez pas au Grisbi, in reaction to an American noir/hardboiled novel. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in various jails, some of them quite harsh. During the occupation, he worked as a journalist and collaborator. He met a rather eccentric character, Jean Bazin, already an author at the NRF, with whom he wrote Voilà taxi!’, in which he tells the story of his job using slang, even including a glossary at the end of the book. He came from a rather modest background, lived in the Chapelle district of Paris and, between the two wars, divided his time between his job as a taxi driver and writing. Franck Lhomeau, historian of the detective novel, who edited, presented and annotated the book, shares the story of the author of The Counterfeiters of Paris.īorn in 1905, he was fifteen years older than Michel Audiard. After the publication last year of three screenplays by Michel Audiard adapted from Georges Simenon's novels, the Lumière Institute /Actes Sud publishers are now focusing on the collaboration between the screenwriter-dialogist and Albert Simonin, from whom the iconic Les Tontons flingueurs/Crooks in Clover originated.
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