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Crimes en série

par James Ellroy

Autres auteurs: Art Cooper (Introduction)

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James Ellroy is a unique and powerful writer with a tough and explosive voice. His obsession with the dark side of L. A. is personal and vital, triggered by the murder of his mother when he was ten. This defining event spawned an early addiction to paperback crime novels, and Ellroy's own writing is saturated in an often violent underworld of bent cops, politicians, stars, sleeze and rumour. Ellroy exploits memory, history, fact and fiction with relentless energy and panache. What emerges is an intense, mythical version of tinseltown in the second half of the twentieth century.… (plus d'informations)
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Ellroy's mother was murdered when he was 10. The crime remains unsolved. This has influenced him ever since. He's obsessed w/ murdered & mutilated & tortured women, he's obsessed w/ brutal crimes set in a (usually) 1950s context.

This is a bk of 4 novella-length sections of True Crime / Crime Fiction that was previously published in GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly). Part One's called "Unsolved" & his mother merits contextualizing mention.

Part Two features his recurring character, "Danny" Getchell, the 'brains' behind a scandal sheet fictionally called "Hush-Hush" based on the factual "Confidential". Getchell, like so many Ellroy characters, is insufferably repulsive - ruining the lives of everyone he touches - resulting in suicides & murders - all justified by his greed fueled by the homophobia & anti-communism of his day. What distinguishes Getchell is that he gives Ellroy an excuse to write in a dramatically different style: alliterative purple prose that's so heavy-handed that it too becomes insufferably repulsive. But w/ Getchell, perhaps more than anywhere else, Ellroy has 'black humor' & poetic justice galore.

Another recurring character is Dick Contino, an actual accordionist that Ellroy arranged to meet when Contino was 63 & asked for permission from to use as a character in his fiction. Ellroy likes Contino so he's arguably a hero or anti-hero. But, SHEESH!, wd I want to be used as a character in an Ellroy novel? No way! Contino is put thru a series of brutal adventures, like all Ellroy characters, where he murders people. By Ellroy's own admission he, Ellroy, is an exploiter - & this is certainly clear here: Contino is exploited & largely debased to an extreme.

The 4th part is back to True Crime - 1st w/ O.J.Simpson (written before the outcome of Simpson's criminal trial). He cautiously (after all, this was printed in a mainstream magazine) deduces/assumes Simpson's guilt & pillories him. I agree. Simpson, for me, is another extremely repulsive character. There are 3 other bits in this section including a reminiscence about his junior high school yrs & a reunion many yrs later. I found it all of interest.

Ellroy's an excellent crime writer. His mom's murder & his own down & out life as a drug abuser & petty offender informs his bks to profoundly depraved depths. But 'if I were him' I'd want to move on, I'd want to finally feel some resolution, some closure. I'd want to recognize & express that life isn't all brutality & torture & treachery & murder & debasement. He's certainly made enuf money by now. What cd a man of his intelligence & talent do if he WERE to move on? I hope we find out eventually. ( )
  tENTATIVELY | Apr 3, 2022 |
A mish mash of true crime reportage, autobiographical essay, and two works of fiction, Crime Wave presents a version Ellroy that is unusually scatterbrained. The true crime sections of Crime Wave focus on the woman/mother aspect of Ellroy's writing that was more refined and better thought out in My Dark Places. The essays are culled from GQ articles and seem tacked on to this fully lackluster collection. Far from a must-read, even Ellroy worshippers will by the end of the book start wondering why they even bothered. ( )
  JeremyBrashaw | May 30, 2021 |
Un despiadado periodista ventila los trapos sucios de los famosos, se revuelca con placer en el barro y mata si es preciso en defensa de la prensa amarilla. Un célebre acordeonista se convierte en adicto al homicidio. Un hombre investiga los archivos policiales para descubrir los posibles vínculos con el asesinato de su madre... Ola de crímenes es una recopilación de cuentos y artículos aparecidos en la revista GQ. En ella, James Ellroy, presenta al lector unas crónicas intimistas de la ciudad de Los Ángeles, a través de un estilo directo y a veces brutal.
  kika66 | Nov 23, 2010 |
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James Ellroy is a unique and powerful writer with a tough and explosive voice. His obsession with the dark side of L. A. is personal and vital, triggered by the murder of his mother when he was ten. This defining event spawned an early addiction to paperback crime novels, and Ellroy's own writing is saturated in an often violent underworld of bent cops, politicians, stars, sleeze and rumour. Ellroy exploits memory, history, fact and fiction with relentless energy and panache. What emerges is an intense, mythical version of tinseltown in the second half of the twentieth century.

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