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Title: Murder Chez Proust
Subtitle: A Mystery
Author: Estelle Monbrun
Narrator: Liisa Ivary
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-03-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
When Adeline Bertrand-Verdon, the haughty, conniving president of the Proust Association, is murdered, Inspector Jean-Pierre Foucheroux is called on to lead the investigation. Soon Inspector Foucheroux is overwhelmed by a seemingly endless list of suspects: from her assistant to her colleagues, her fiancé to her lover, almost everyone Adeline knew had motive to kill her. Meanwhile, Gisele Dambert, the beautiful assistant with the royal-blue eyes and more than a hint of mystery, is on her own search for the lost Proust notes that would allow her to finally enter the glittering world of the literary elite.
This clever satirical novel presents a dazzling array of sharp, unscrupulous professors and scholars in the image-obsessed world of academia. An assortment of suspects - the professor who plagiarizes his students' work, the manipulative director - bring intrigue and drama to the novel. Suspense and withering commentary on the morally questionable intellectual elite combine to form a clever mix of whodunit and satire.
Members Reviews:
Didn't hold my interest
A bit old fashioned in style, but lots of potential. Maybe I was just tired! Certainly a different milieu, and one the author seems to know.
Four Stars
Subtle way of introducing reader to MARCEL PROUST.
A Clever, Witty, Ingenious Mystery
Estelle Monbrun knows how to grab a reader and then hold him or her with vivid characters and a narrative that builds momentum that won't let you go until the end.
Possibly an awkward translation. Possibly an awkward book.
As a big fan of both Proust and continental crime, I dutifully stole this book from my sister. I expected some rather big things. As you can probably hear, I was disappointed.
I do have some mixed feelings in the disappointment. Montbrun (or Elyane Dezon-Jones) does some really interesting things with character description, particularly in the beginning of the book. Unfortunately, the interesting things do not extend into the plot. I found it halting, stilted, and full of cliches. This might be acceptable in a cozy, which this is not.
I mention the translation because the translation very nearly seemed a character in the book. I noticed it, and I generally don't. It may be that Martyn was faithfully reproducing the prose's own awkwardness, or it may be that the prose itself was the problem. Either way, it was awkward.
Flipping through what reviews I can find online (the book was written in 1995) it seems that when people like it, they mostly like it for its take on the politics of Proustian academics. I love Proust, but I'll confess to not being an academic. Possibly I was out of the niche as ideal audience member. Not really sure.
In any case, I wasn't terribly impressed despite the interesting aspects of the piece.
Agatha-esque quality
This is a good Agatha Christie style mystery, though I was able to correctly determine the guilty party halfway through the book (something I fail to do when reading Poirot...so this should provide for you a good gauge of the book's mystique). What is remarkable about this book, and what I think was omitted above in the reviews, is that it was written by the real life editor of The Friends of Marcel Proust and Combray society's bulletin, Elyane Dezon-Jones. Her descriptions of Proust's home make you feel like you are really there.
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Title: Murder Chez Proust
Subtitle: A Mystery
Author: Estelle Monbrun
Narrator: Liisa Ivary
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-03-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
When Adeline Bertrand-Verdon, the haughty, conniving president of the Proust Association, is murdered, Inspector Jean-Pierre Foucheroux is called on to lead the investigation. Soon Inspector Foucheroux is overwhelmed by a seemingly endless list of suspects: from her assistant to her colleagues, her fiancé to her lover, almost everyone Adeline knew had motive to kill her. Meanwhile, Gisele Dambert, the beautiful assistant with the royal-blue eyes and more than a hint of mystery, is on her own search for the lost Proust notes that would allow her to finally enter the glittering world of the literary elite.
This clever satirical novel presents a dazzling array of sharp, unscrupulous professors and scholars in the image-obsessed world of academia. An assortment of suspects - the professor who plagiarizes his students' work, the manipulative director - bring intrigue and drama to the novel. Suspense and withering commentary on the morally questionable intellectual elite combine to form a clever mix of whodunit and satire.
Members Reviews:
Didn't hold my interest
A bit old fashioned in style, but lots of potential. Maybe I was just tired! Certainly a different milieu, and one the author seems to know.
Four Stars
Subtle way of introducing reader to MARCEL PROUST.
A Clever, Witty, Ingenious Mystery
Estelle Monbrun knows how to grab a reader and then hold him or her with vivid characters and a narrative that builds momentum that won't let you go until the end.
Possibly an awkward translation. Possibly an awkward book.
As a big fan of both Proust and continental crime, I dutifully stole this book from my sister. I expected some rather big things. As you can probably hear, I was disappointed.
I do have some mixed feelings in the disappointment. Montbrun (or Elyane Dezon-Jones) does some really interesting things with character description, particularly in the beginning of the book. Unfortunately, the interesting things do not extend into the plot. I found it halting, stilted, and full of cliches. This might be acceptable in a cozy, which this is not.
I mention the translation because the translation very nearly seemed a character in the book. I noticed it, and I generally don't. It may be that Martyn was faithfully reproducing the prose's own awkwardness, or it may be that the prose itself was the problem. Either way, it was awkward.
Flipping through what reviews I can find online (the book was written in 1995) it seems that when people like it, they mostly like it for its take on the politics of Proustian academics. I love Proust, but I'll confess to not being an academic. Possibly I was out of the niche as ideal audience member. Not really sure.
In any case, I wasn't terribly impressed despite the interesting aspects of the piece.
Agatha-esque quality
This is a good Agatha Christie style mystery, though I was able to correctly determine the guilty party halfway through the book (something I fail to do when reading Poirot...so this should provide for you a good gauge of the book's mystique). What is remarkable about this book, and what I think was omitted above in the reviews, is that it was written by the real life editor of The Friends of Marcel Proust and Combray society's bulletin, Elyane Dezon-Jones. Her descriptions of Proust's home make you feel like you are really there.