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André Cornélis: A Psychological Crime Novel
Hardcover
RomanceClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515424369
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A young man's search for the truth behind his father's murder becomes a study in obsession, suspicion, and moral revenge. In André Cornélis, Paul Bourget turns a family crime into a dark psychological investigation, following André as he revisits the trauma of childhood and becomes convinced that the official story of his father's death conceals a more intimate and terrible betrayal. The result is not a conventional detective novel so much as an early psychological crime novel, built around memory, inheritance, suspicion, and the dangerous logic of a mind determined to make the past confess.
Bourget was one of the major French psychological novelists of the late nineteenth century, and André Cornélis shows why his work belongs in a crime and noir line as well as in literary fiction. Its tension comes from inward pressure: a son reconstructing the scene of violence, weighing motive and character, and slowly trapping himself in the moral consequences of discovery. First published in 1887, the novel stands near the roots of psychological suspense, domestic noir, and crime fiction concerned less with police procedure than with guilt, motive, and the private damage left behind by murder.
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