In his short life Jean Claude Izzo has left a series of novels that have become true cult book.
detective story, but not all. Stories that reverberate his civic passion, his social commitment, attention to current issues.
His acute vision and commitment means that the reason police is sometimes just an excuse to talk about big issues of life.
This is why it is loved by those readers who may not vie for the yellow kind. E ' his way of looking at things that is fascinating, his views on the world.
Mediterranean, as he liked to say.
Through this lens perspective, it toghether to Camilleri, Montalban, Bartlet, Markaris, he introduces us to the spirit of his homeland, the Midi.
From Marseille look at the world. And 'here-at the top of the stairs of the lighthouse Sainte-Marie, for the accuracy of the dam at the eastern end of the Large I think in the world. On the distant world, the world around. I think of me, though, the Mediterranean. Mediterranean man.
JC Izzo
Born in Marseille in 1945 by an Italian father and a mother of English origin as a boy Jean Claude writes stories and poems highlighting his vocation literature and journalism. Passion that led him to collaborate with several prestigious newspapers and magazines on writing poetry and fiction, although his talent is recognized late, after years of paying dues. That
both tasted success and having to surrender immediately to the weariness of living. She dies at the age of 55 years for lung cancer.
His style has a journalistic verve that makes him a storyteller of extraordinary effectiveness in the flow of the best tradition of French noir where good and evil are never strictly separated.
In his novels we find references to the old genre films (those with Delon, Ventura, Auteil, for instance) the cinema of social commitment Guédiguian and grains to the philosophy of the poet Braquier.
Marseille is my destiny as the Mediterranean of which are mixed-race child. Yes, that's what I say, with a head full of verses Brauquier Louis, too forgotten poet, whose praise Marseille but also all those who came from afar to give it its beauty.
Jean Claude Izzo
His narrative style, captivating, with constant twists keep us in suspense. I devour his books in the space of one evening and his characters, the atmosphere, we are left in that period thanks to the poetic and the continuous references that refer to the great music and literature. E ' so that Fabio Montale, alter ego, makes us partakers of an imaginary of music (from Bob Dylan to Gianmaria Testa, Paolo Conte by Leo Ferré), books (from Conrad Louis Branquier by Glissant in Cesare Pavese ).
background, his city with its port, its light, social conflicts, the Mafia, the racist National Front, a police often corrupt and powerless against the ferocity of the various rackets. From what drug that contracts for the construction of the new marina.
Marseille is the real added value of its stories, the real protagonist, the set moves on which the Commissioner Fabio Montale. Read
Izzo is to enter into a relationship with certain skin roads, local authorities, with a desperate humanity, button, we can not help but love
This is the spell that has managed to make about the reader.
How many of us, in fact, after reading the trilogy did not think at least once if only for a visit Marseille on Saturday and a half on Sunday?
A trip to the places of adventure to say, as Montale, "I walked through the Panier, a drink in a bistro Pastis, ordered a bouillabaisse, savoring the scent of the sea . After reading
Izzo takes a wistful desire to exist, a complicity with the places of novels such as Jean Claude recalled, "is the most best compliment that I have done: tell me when you finish reading my books is a cursed will to live. "
detective story, but not all. Stories that reverberate his civic passion, his social commitment, attention to current issues.
His acute vision and commitment means that the reason police is sometimes just an excuse to talk about big issues of life.
This is why it is loved by those readers who may not vie for the yellow kind. E ' his way of looking at things that is fascinating, his views on the world.
Mediterranean, as he liked to say.
Through this lens perspective, it toghether to Camilleri, Montalban, Bartlet, Markaris, he introduces us to the spirit of his homeland, the Midi.
From Marseille look at the world. And 'here-at the top of the stairs of the lighthouse Sainte-Marie, for the accuracy of the dam at the eastern end of the Large I think in the world. On the distant world, the world around. I think of me, though, the Mediterranean. Mediterranean man.
JC Izzo
Born in Marseille in 1945 by an Italian father and a mother of English origin as a boy Jean Claude writes stories and poems highlighting his vocation literature and journalism. Passion that led him to collaborate with several prestigious newspapers and magazines on writing poetry and fiction, although his talent is recognized late, after years of paying dues. That
both tasted success and having to surrender immediately to the weariness of living. She dies at the age of 55 years for lung cancer.
His style has a journalistic verve that makes him a storyteller of extraordinary effectiveness in the flow of the best tradition of French noir where good and evil are never strictly separated.
In his novels we find references to the old genre films (those with Delon, Ventura, Auteil, for instance) the cinema of social commitment Guédiguian and grains to the philosophy of the poet Braquier.
Marseille is my destiny as the Mediterranean of which are mixed-race child. Yes, that's what I say, with a head full of verses Brauquier Louis, too forgotten poet, whose praise Marseille but also all those who came from afar to give it its beauty.
Jean Claude Izzo
His narrative style, captivating, with constant twists keep us in suspense. I devour his books in the space of one evening and his characters, the atmosphere, we are left in that period thanks to the poetic and the continuous references that refer to the great music and literature. E ' so that Fabio Montale, alter ego, makes us partakers of an imaginary of music (from Bob Dylan to Gianmaria Testa, Paolo Conte by Leo Ferré), books (from Conrad Louis Branquier by Glissant in Cesare Pavese ).
background, his city with its port, its light, social conflicts, the Mafia, the racist National Front, a police often corrupt and powerless against the ferocity of the various rackets. From what drug that contracts for the construction of the new marina.
Marseille is the real added value of its stories, the real protagonist, the set moves on which the Commissioner Fabio Montale. Read
Izzo is to enter into a relationship with certain skin roads, local authorities, with a desperate humanity, button, we can not help but love
This is the spell that has managed to make about the reader.
How many of us, in fact, after reading the trilogy did not think at least once if only for a visit Marseille on Saturday and a half on Sunday?
A trip to the places of adventure to say, as Montale, "I walked through the Panier, a drink in a bistro Pastis, ordered a bouillabaisse, savoring the scent of the sea . After reading
Izzo takes a wistful desire to exist, a complicity with the places of novels such as Jean Claude recalled, "is the most best compliment that I have done: tell me when you finish reading my books is a cursed will to live. "
trap so carefully prepared for a long time and lots of subtle cunning, finally snapped on the cross. 
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