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When you spend a lot of time enthusiastically recommending a favourite writer to people unfamiliar with him, it's easy to acquire that cosy feeling that you're one of the initiated, spreading the word to those who aren't. For many, that used to be the case with Henning Mankell; crime aficionados who had discovered the Swedish master could hardly wait to extol the virtues of his wonderfully written novels -- and Mankell’s taciturn copper, Kurt Wallander. But the days when Mankell and his creation were known to just a privileged few are long over. There has already been an acclaimed television series made for the Scandinavian territories, and a major new English-speaking series beckons (starring Kenneth Branagh); even more fame is guaranteed for the writer and his detective.
So the time is probably right for The Pyramid, even though those of us who enjoyed putting out the word about Mankell will have to relinquish their proselytising role. Wallander first appeared in Faceless in 1991, when he was a senior police officer just out of his 30s and with his private life in chaos. The stories here describe his early years: the events, the people and the crimes that forged the man we first met in Faceless. We encounter Wallander as a beat cop attempting to crack a murder in his spare time; we follow him in his tentative first steps with Mona, the woman he has decided to marry (his wife, of course, had left him by the time of the events in that first book), and we are shown why his relationship with his father is quite so fractious. The elements that make the full length Wallander novels so successful are all here in microcosm: a cool, dispassionate treatment of crime, the understated evocation of the Scandinavian locales; and (best of all) the puzzling, fascinating character of the tenacious cop at the centre of the narrative.
Mankell fans may prefer the full-length novels (and not every piece here is vintage Mankell), but they will feel the need to catch up with the insights provided by these striking stories. --Barry Forshaw --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The five stories in this outstanding collection from Mankell (Faceless Killers) provide glimpses into Kurt Wallander's early life as a policeman as well as paint evocative portraits of contemporary Swedish society. An unremarkable businessman is poisoned in The Man on the Beach but—in typical Mankell fashion—the case is larger, more complex and more interesting than it first appears. In the volume's best entry, The Death of the Photographer, Simon Lamberg takes studio portraits of weddings and children, but a couple of nights each week, he uses his darkroom to distort published photographs of politicians and newsworthy people for a macabre personal scrapbook. It's a bizarre hobby, but the cause of Lamberg's brutal, apparently senseless death is an even stranger puzzle. Like the Wallander novels, these stories rank among the finest police procedurals being written today. (Sept.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
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au commencement était le crime,
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Ce commentaire fait référence à cette édition : Pyramid: The Kurt Wallander Stories (Broché)
Ces cinq enquêtes de jeunesse de Kurt Wallander se situent chronologiquement avant Faceless Killers. Chaque récit avoisine les 80 pages et Mankell, dont ce n'est pourtant pas la distance habituelle, s'en tire fort bien. Son héros fétiche est déjà harnaché ici de toutes ses caractéristiques futures, fussent-elles parfois embryonnaires. En fait, ce qui rend à mon avis Wallander si attachant et si pathétique à la fois, c'est que, à la manière de ces médecins qui se dévouent aux autres et se négligent eux-mêmes, il excelle à comprendre l'être humain en général, mais peine à appliquer sa perspicacité à son propre entourage, qu'il s'agisse en l'occurence de son père ou de sa petite amie, Mona. Comme Harry Bosch, Dave Robicheaux ou John Rebus, Wallander est un flic éminemment complexe, parfaitement atypique et terriblement faillible, un être humain à part entière dans lequel chaque lecteur peut retrouver un peu de lui-même. Ce n'est pas la peine, je crois, d'aller chercher plus loin la raison de son phénoménal succès.
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A prequel to a highly succesful series,
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The Pyramid, Henning Mankell (HM)'s ninth book about police inspector Wallander in Ystad, a really-existing town in the south of Sweden, is a so-called prequel to a highly successful series of 8 earlier books written earlier. They have been translated into many languages and some were made into 90-minute TV thrillers. It is a collection of two long and a number of shorter stories. It aim is to explain the roots and reasons of Wallander wishing to become a policeman and detective, and describes his earliest cases.HM is a truly formidable successor to the husband-and-wife team of crime writers who made Sweden famous during the 1960's and -70's: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (S&W). In the space of a decade they produced ten (10) tightly structured thrillers, with few surpassing the publishers' dream of 256 pages. In terms of crime solving, each of them was a page turner. A bonus of the series was the perspective of the hero, detective Martin Beck, on crime, his country, his own life, past, present and future. The downside of the Swedish welfare society of the time was enlivened by highlighting the fate of lonely, alienated, divorced people, who could be victims, perpetrators and/or investigators. In the 1970s, I read with disbelief the discovery of empty cans of cat food at an elderly murder victim's home, implying the welfare state had failed. Today we know better. And today, Martin Beck is a popular TV-series, broadcast in many countries, always late at night. A comparison: the heroes, Beck and Wallander are no jokers or charmers or male bonders; they do not drink much, have bad marriages and divorce early in their careers; they maintain little or no contact with their own parents and children. They are not very passionate about anything, except solving crimes. Life is no fun for them. Wallander always appears to drink his coffee when it has turned cold. Over time the Wallander books have grown in size and impact: ever more dead people per book and a more diverse cast of perpetrators as a result of globalization. The 8 books starring Wallander are excellent, every one of them. And going from one book to the next, HM has taken great care to keep the reader up to date about his hero's personal problems and Nordic depression. I find The Pyramid a somewhat annoying book for the same reason why many other readers will love it and be happy to be presented with the early days of Wallander as a policeman. For me, Wallander is primarily a competent detective, not a riveting character. He is basically a passive, brooding bore and to know more about his past is more of a bore. Surely there will be a tenth book about inspector Wallander, if only to match S&W's unsurpassed ten. The present reviewer hopes inspector Wallander will go out with a bang with a brilliant investigation, in a book that will keep the problems of doubt and aging to a minimum. Nonetheless, HMl--a good man in Africa, reviving the Mozambique national theatre--has done a great job with The Pyramid. PS: In his tenth book about Wallander, an entire village is killed... Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
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Ce commentaire fait référence à cette édition : Pyramid: The Kurt Wallander Stories (Broché)
C'est dommage que ce n'est pas traduit en français C'est aussi bien que les autres polars Wallander par Mankell.Wallander is le anti-hero parfait.
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