Villains Are Usually Naive

3 hrs. 26 min.

Language Russian

Author Frédéric Dard

Narrator Sergey Kirsanov

Description

In the world of French detective fiction, Frédéric Darr—better known to the public as San-Antonio—is, by general critical consensus, a star of the first magnitude. This is evidenced not only by the impressive number of works he has written (about 200) and the massive print runs of his books in France, measured in hundreds of thousands of copies, but above all by the very type of specific French detective story that he created. In it, the speed and tangled complexity of the plot development, together with the elegantly rough and frivolous manner of storytelling—abundantly sprinkled with slang—sometimes border on parody of the traditional police novel.