Our colleague François Rivière belongs to an endangered species: that of smugglers.
These enthusiasts who love nothing more than sharing their love for certain authors or books that have left their mark, enchanted them.
From Enid Blyton to G. K. Chesterton, via Frédéric Dard and J. M. Barrie, the list is long of creators on whom he has written essays and biographies.
Last year, he offered us the first biography in French of Arthur Conan Doyle.
And today, he returns to his discovery of those he calls
"blood sisters"
, these Anglo-Saxon novelists discovered as teenagers in London's second-hand bookstores and, each month, in
Mystère Magazine
which he obtained it from the press house in his hometown of Saintes, in Charente-Maritime.
Inside, he discovered the
“singular world”
of authors who
“charmed him much more than those of Lagarde and Michard”
.
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In her pantheon, the
“Duchess of Death”
, Agatha Christie.
His death in 1976 saddened him…
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