> what do you all know about Simonin's TOUCHEZ
PAS
> AU GRISBI ? I saw in an old video guide that it was
made into a film but I
> have never seen it and as far as I know it's not on
video. It's an
> interesting, gritty novel published not long after
the war with the
> weirdest thing ever - a glossary of the slang used in
the back. Does anyone
> know of an American counterpart to this? Has anyone
else ever done this?
I don't know of an American counterpart, but the English noir
author
Derek Raymond included a slang dictionary at the back of his
novel _A
state of Denmark_. Some of it is real Cockney rhyming slang,
but as the
novel is set in a totalitarian future, I suspect that some
slang may
have been invented (as was the case in Burgess's _A clockwork
orange_).
anyway, so who knows?.
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