Outrage and Insight

Outrage and Insight: Modern French Writers and the 'Fait Divers' (Berg French Studies Series)

Outrage and Insight was written by and David H. Walker. The 288 page book was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 1995 with an ISBN 10 of 085496780x. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Outrage and Insight mentions 1 serial killers including Eugen Weidmann. The author David H. Walker has 2 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

The Papin sisters -- two maids who shocked France by savagely butchering their mistress and her daughter. Violette Nozières -- arrested for poisoning her mother and father. The serial murderer Eugen Weidmann -- the last man to be publicly guillotined in France. These sordid tales, widely disseminated by the French press in articles known as the faits divers, have inflamed the imaginations of French writers and intellectuals from Zola and de Beauvoir to Barthes, Foucault and Lacan. They are the basis for some of the most enduring characters in French fiction -- Julian Sorel, Emma Bovary and Thérèse Desqueyroux -- and continue to enthrall readers on a daily basis. This fascinating book is the only systematic study of the creative relationship...