Outrage and Insight: Modern French Writers and the 'Fait Divers'

by David H. Walker

- The Papin sisters -- two maids who shocked France by savagely butchering their mistress and her daughter. - Violette Nozi res -- arrested for poisoning her mother and father. The serial murderer Eugen Weidmann -- the last man to be publicly guillotined in France.These sordid tales, widely disseminated by the French press in articles known as the faits divers, have inflamed the imaginations of French writers and intellectuals from Zola and de Beauvoir...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085496780X
• ISBN13: 9780854967803
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"