{"id":48249,"date":"2022-05-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=48249"},"modified":"2022-09-25T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T13:59:56","slug":"why-reread-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/why-reread-san-antonio\/","title":{"rendered":"Why (re)read San-Antonio?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday books <\/a>- Ivan Garcia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editions Pocket has reissued the works of the legendary French detective in pocket format. An opportunity to discover some of these colorful and saucy detective stories. The proof is in the pudding, with a reissue of the volume Antifreeze in the calbuteus<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In recent years, authors of thrillers and detective novels have been on a roll: a screen adaptation of a Maigret novel, the publication of The Alaska Sanders case<\/em> by Jo\u00ebl Dicker<\/a> (which, despite its huge sales, is said to be very boring)... You can see this for yourself when strolling through the bookshops: new detective novels and the shelves dedicated to this genre are well-stocked. It was in a bookshop (and quite recently) that the author of these lines became acquainted with a detective legend, Commissaire San-Antonio, known as \u00abSana\u00bb or \u00abSan-A\u00bb to fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A successful series<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A detective series written by the French writer Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dard, who died in 2000 at his home in Bonnefontaine, in the canton of Fribourg, the \u00abSan-Antonio\u00bb series symbolizes an astonishing publishing success, with no fewer than 175 volumes (not counting the off-series) spanning some five decades (the first tome Settle his account<\/em> was published in 1949 and the last, Killer cereals<\/em>, posthumously in 2001).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00abSan-Antonio is station kiosk literature. For me, going the distance means being able to be read entirely on the Paris-Lyon route.\u00bb (Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dard, in the large-format Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dard, d\u00e9lit d'imagination, devoted to him by RTS).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Every detective series has its Commissioner. There's something for everyone: from the California playboy in the convertible to the moody Swedish inspector (with his three-day beard), not forgetting Commissaire Maigret, there's something for everyone. But if, like the author of these lines, you're not necessarily charmed by moody commissaires and, let's face it, you're more looking for a good laugh than a fine psychological analysis of the characters, then San-Antonio is for you. Hence the fact that the author considered his stories ideal for reading on the TGV between Paris and Lyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n