Books Ghosts are a hit from 1911 in the popular serial novel genre. From the imagination of Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allainthe authors invent a masked bandit, “the master of all and everything” say the authors, suffering from a tough superiority complex, which will naturally lead to paranoid disorders. Fantômas tortures and kills in cold blood! Basically for money, its engine. These criminal stories take place for the most part in Paris.
Pursued relentlessly by the Commissioner Juve and the Fandor journalist. Fantômas, never caught, never punished, always ends up fleeing, most often by metro, taking advantage of an opportunity to make a whole train disappear, first and second class cars, between Antwerp and Pigalle and steal the recipe One day RATP.
For more 30 years and 32 novelsFantômas managed the feat of capturing a large popular audience and fascinating numbers of surrealists, writers and poets such as Apollinaire, Cocteau, Max Jacob, Pablo Neruda, Blaise Cendrars and Robert Desnos who wrote “La lamente de Fantômas” .
So, Parisiennes, Parisians, you will not stop shaking while reading or re-reading Fantômas, by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain at Robert Laffont.