/lit/ - Literature

>>17597425
Fantômas
For real, I was once in same situation, this was the book that made me feel alive again.

Arsène Lupin is also nice, if you stick to short stories. I especially recommend Seven of Hearts and The Man in the Goatskin.
Don't try longer novels for now, some are still comfy, but those don't have a translation as far as I can see.

>>17579148
Fantômas

>>17566398
The writers left clues here and there about the past of Fantômas, but never ventured to actually explore any of it. Even when past caught up with him and started influencing the present, it was all left very vague.

>>17535637
Fantômas
With a nice, expensive bracelet included in the package.

So what did you think of it?

>>17461216
I love the entire Fantômas series, but you can just put the first one as the starting point to a wild adventure. Authors are Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain.

Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc is another of my favorite, but this series is a mixed bag where short stories are the best flavor. So put in:
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Thief
The Confessions of Arsène Lupin
Barnett & Co. Agency (also known as Arsène Lupin Intervenes)

I got some other books that make a really good read, but I wouldn't really call them my favorite of all time yet.

>>17384205

>>17360636
Fantômas
Not memeing, the whole series was just so good to me.

>>17340245
It showed me that reading can indeed be an immense pleasure.

>>17324596
The only cover from the original edition that wasn't made by Gino Starace, it was actually based on a poster advertising medicine that some rejected designer left at the publishing house, with pills being replaced by a bloody knife.
There was no name on the poster and the designer never came forward, so he missed the opportunity to be recorded in history.

>>17191113
Fantômas

>>17105539
late 19th century/early 20th century French literature

>>16976449
Fantômas

I am sad they never went into detail on who Juan North was.
We know he was an aristocrat and a relative of the Hesse-Weimar king, and that after a huge scandal had to flee and leave everything behind, including his own son.
There is already a small implication then that he was Fantômas, since rumors had him perish in shipwreck (Fantômas doesn't shy away from sinking ships to "kill" his identity) or living in South America (where Fantômas met Etienne Rambert). it's later that we find out son of Juan, Vladimir, is actually son of Fantômas, but Juan North is never mentioned again, never are the events behind the disappearance of this legend revealed or if he was a separate person whose identity Fantômas took over.
Or even why the hell does a man from German-speaking country have a Spanish name?

It would have been a good theme to write about, since we never know what set Fantômas on his path and why he was so paranoid and detached from people.

>>16939223
Fantômas

>>16926164
You come to where the fun is, anon...

>>16852500
Fantômas

>>16787906
Fantômas
Read the whole series.

>>16732451
Fantômas by Souvestre/Allain
There should be 6 or 7 from the original series available for purchase, and another 5 from Allain's continuation.

>>16706894
Much like Fantômas, I see (almost) everything.
Sometimes, when I recognize a similarity, I wonder if a person was inspired by a character or were they attracted to them cause the similarity already existed? Fantômas was the kind of character that could get out of almost any situation because of his quick thinking and eloquence. While Desnos at the end succumbed to illness, at least these same traits made him a person worth praise and remembered by history.

Have you read it?

>>16581503
Fantômas
Depending on edition, books from his series have some nice covers.

>>16379622
You should read the entire Fantômas series by Souvestre and Allain. I don't know if the christian in you will like it, but the homosexual should appreciate the image of a tall, athletic man in tights.