Tito Topin is absolutely great and his humor is almost the
best part...Piano Barjo is perfect for that six hours plane
trip across the big pond...merci Etienne to remind us of
this...with the hope it could be translated some days
although the black humour could be very hard to transfer
cross culturally...just like his Grafitti Rock or Tchatcha
Nouga... I heard that Navarro is coming on the TV5 French
Channel on the Dish network..hopefully this is true...and
often these French series on TV5 have subtitles...
Merci again..
Steve/Montois
On 10/31/05 8:08 AM, "E.Borgers" <
webeurop@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Mark,
>
> There are some French Noir novels using transgender
characters, not
> transvestites.
> Often the character is really secondary, but there's
one in which the
> male to female transgender is an important character
of the story; I do
> not think it was ever translated:
> Title: PIANO BARJO (1983) -pure play of words, could
be equivalent to
> "Piano Crazy" or to mimic the play of word: "Piano
Parano"- a novel by
> Tito Topin, taking place in the Marocco of the
fifties when a
> significant amount of French people were still
living there.
> The transgender is a singer/ dancer in a very lousy
bar where the
> central character plays piano. He/she is in love
with the piano
> player... which makes a secondary plot expanding and
mixing with the
> main one.
> Atypical, noir, very violent during some parts, the
whole thing is
> soaked in a very dark humor and lot of
cynicism.
>
> Tito Topin made a string of very interesting noir
novels, some with the
> humor vein taking the leading, but all of them
always very inventive,
> atypical and full of black humor.
> Topin was the script writer of a very successful
police serial for the
> French TV ("Navarro"), and this made him stop
-during the end of the
> eighties- his noir novels writing.
Unfortunately.
>
> There are probably some other French novels to be
listed to answer
> Mark's request, but that's the one I immediately
remembered.
>
> E.Borgers
> HARD-BOILED MYSTERIES
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
> POLAR NOIR
> http://www.geocities.com/polarnoir
>
>> >This raises a question -- are there any
transgender protagonists (not
>> >just walk-ons) in noir or hardboiled lit?
I'm aware of plenty of gay
>> >and lesbian (I've often wondered why lesbian
has to be added -- isn't
>> >gay gender neutral?) protagonists, but no
transgendered. I bet a pretty
>> >interesting book could be done from such an
outsider perspective.
>> >
>> >Mark
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
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