Gaboriau live!

Oh, Emile Gaboriau! If he is a writer who inspires both immense gratitude and deep respect, it's him ... Born in 1832, died in 1873, his time on earth was short, unfortunately strong, but the 40 small years fell due him sufficed to let in the history of Letters indelible mark ... Well, do you tell me if he had not invented the detective story, another, sooner or later, s' would be responsible ... Probably! Nevertheless, the magical intuition, the creative spark, it is he who was before anyone else when a beautiful day of 1863 he moved to his desk, picked up his quill and began to write down the story of a crime and its resolution, thereby inventing a new literary genre whose success has done since amplify ... This novel, which was serialized, it was of course The Lerouge Affair, which was a resounding success and gave his famous protagonist, Inspector Lecoq, including Conan Doyle, a few years later, was inspired to create Sherlock Holmes ...

This "Little Old Batignolles", he appeared posthumously in 1876. Long story or short novel, you see, it is in any case a great suspense story whose grades do not diminish the qualities literary. The narrator, a Godeuil lives rue Racine in Paris, where he completed his medical studies. Intrigued by a neighbor, Mr. Mechinet he gradually binds with him without knowing that he exerts a curious detective profession. But one evening they play dominoes together, we will pick Mechinet to elucidate the murder of a man found stabbed at his home in the district of Batignolles. Seizing the opportunity, Godeuil accompanies the scene of the crime, then, taking the game, following it step by step in his investigation ...

Three quarters of an hour, 45 short minutes, the time it took me to eat up these some 90 pages, and I beg you to believe, my friends, that not once did I lifted the nose of my text, I was too engrossed in this fascinating mystery to worry about anything else! Ah, what enchantment that polar 136 years old and yet still so young ... Not only its plot is ingenious, but what wonderful pen, moreover, tells us Gaboriau! What elegance in his prose ... What fluidity, what clarity, what liveliness in his narrative that jumps with stunning ease in the past simple present tense ... So many detective stories, nowadays, are of stylistic indigence absolutely abysmal! Well, the authors would do well to return to the roots of the genre and to emulate this dear and great Emile which itself while writing crime fiction, was also of Literature ...