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Marcel Allain (1885–1969)

Autor von Fantômas

57+ Werke 1,043 Mitglieder 13 Rezensionen Lieblingsautor von 2 Lesern

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Beinhaltet die Namen: Marcel Allain, Marcello Allain

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Fantômas (1911) 633 Exemplare
The Silent Executioner (1911) 146 Exemplare
The Corpse Who Kills (1911) 58 Exemplare
A Royal Prisoner (1911) 30 Exemplare
A Nest of Spies (1911) 23 Exemplare
The Daughter of Fantomas (1911) 13 Exemplare
Mord in Monte Carlo (1911) 11 Exemplare
The Long Arm of Fantomas (1911) 10 Exemplare
Fantomas Captured (1926) 8 Exemplare
Fantomas: Ein Zug verschwindet (1995) 7 Exemplare
Juve in the Dock (1926) 7 Exemplare
The Lord of Terror (1925) 6 Exemplare
Le Rour (1908) 6 Exemplare
The Revenge of Fantomas (1927) 5 Exemplare
Fantômas, tome 3 (1989) 4 Exemplare
Fantoma: Boş Tabut (1913) 4 Exemplare
Mõrvahotell : [romaan] (1997) 3 Exemplare
Saatuslikud lilled : [romaan] (1957) 3 Exemplare
La fine di Fantomas (1913) 3 Exemplare
Fantoom Mehhikos : [romaan] (1997) 2 Exemplare
Džoki maskis : [romaan] (1913) 2 Exemplare
Le mariage de Fantômas (1933) 1 Exemplar
Le policier apache 1 Exemplar
Fantomas n03 le mort qui tue (1995) 1 Exemplar
Meçhul Ceset 1 Exemplar
Madame Satan 1 Exemplar

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Geburtstag
1885-09-15
Todestag
1969-08-25
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
France

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This will be short and sweet. Fantomas is an engaging, entertaining, and rightfully classic read. Interesting characters, lots of plot twists, and old-fashioned drama. If you like melodramatic mysteries, this is one (of several in the series) not to be missed.
 
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colligan | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 1, 2022 |
Particularly enjoyable because of how stereotypical the book starts out. "Of course nobody could have possibly killed the woman for these ten reasons, and she was always so careful not to be killed". But persevere through that and the story goes in many interesting and novel directions.

The book is available for free even in English presumably as public domain. However, the translation is hard to bear as the translator insisted on using stereotypical British words like chap, egad, and so on liberally throughout the book.

Next time I'd pay for a better translation.
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eatonphil | 8 weitere Rezensionen | May 8, 2022 |
Crime story about man who is master of disguise. So mysterious that by end i still wasn't sure what his plan was, which is a bit too mysterious. Overall not bad though.
 
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wreade1872 | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 28, 2021 |
I am Fantômas!... I am he for whom the entire world is searching, whom none has ever seen, whom none can recognize!... I am Crime incarnated!... I am Night!... No human sees my face, because Crime and Night are featureless!... I am illimitable Power!... I am he who mocks at all the powers, at all the efforts, at all the forces!... I am Death!... I am Fantômas!

Utterly preposterous and improbable, full of unlikely coincidences, and more disguises and mistaken identities than a bagful of Shakespeare comedies, and often bafflingly confusing when the authors decide not to immediately make it clear which of the established characters are in the scene - exactly what I was anticipating!

As Souvestre and Allain were contracted to write a book per month, a certain formulaity and predictability in terms of plot are to be expected, as well as an occasional slapdash feel, but as I didn't want to be mentally exercised when I picked up this book, that was fine.

Despite knowing the ingredients, the exact dish being served is not always so certain, and there is still a lot of tension in the narrative, with part of the pleasure lying in figuring out which of the characters will turn out to be Fantômas. While for the series to continue, Fantômas must escape the clutches of Detective Juve and his journalist protege, Fandor, the interest is not if but how he will manage to evade capture.

In this instalment, espionage, military secrets and the security services are the trappings surrounding Fantômas's machinations. Written in the years approaching the Great War, there is some historical interest in the social and political anxieties being played upon, and some nationalist stereotypes about who are the ""good guys" and who are the "bad".

It's been a while since I read the previous books in the series, but this one strikes me as being more (intentionally) humorous than those.

Excellent genre fiction for when you just want to put your feet up and be swept along.
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