Peruse La Più Bella Di Parigi (Rocambole, #2) By Pierre Alexis Ponson Du Terrail Format Physical Edition

Ponson du TerrailRocamboleII episodioI "Garzanti per tutti" offrono al lettore italiano d'oggi le avventure di "Rocambole" in una versione italiana completamente nuova e linguisticamente attuale, impegnata a restituire la spregiudicatezza letteraria dell'originale.
"Rocambolesco," informa il dizionario, "si dice di azione audace e strabiliante compiuta con singolare destrezza e astuzia, Derivato di Rocambole, nome dello spericolato protagonista di molti romanzi dello scrittore francese P, A. Ponson du Terrail. "Anche questo secondo episodio di "Rocambole" esce nella serie "Romanzi famosi" i tascabili dal dorso azzurro, la nuova sezione dei "Garzanti per tutti" che si alterna alle due serie già affermate, i "Grandi libri" dal dorso bianco e "Romanzi e realtà" dal dorso marrone.
Rocambole è il primo legittimo erede dello spirito d'avventura che, trasferendosi dall'epoca cavalleresca nel nostro mondo, abbandona lancia e corazza per adottare revolver e stiffelius e, in seguito, con lievissime trasformazioni, potrà passare alla calzamaglia nera di Fantomas e alla non meno nera e fantastica tuta da subacqueo di James Bond.
Il creatore di "Rocambole", il visconte PierreAlexis Ponson du Terrail, si rivelò giovanissimo e

morì di vaiolo nero a quarant'un anni dopo aver pubblicato oltre ottanta lunghi romanzi.
Pierre Alexis Joseph Ferdinand, vicomte de Ponson du TerrailJulyJanuarywas a French writer, He was a prolific novelist, producing in the space of twenty years some seventy three volumes, and is best remembered today for his creation of the fictional character of Rocambole.
Ponson du Terrails early works squarely belonged to the Gothic novel genre: his La Baronne Trépasséewas a murky Ann Radcliffe like tale of revenge in the macabre surroundings ofth century Germany Black Forest.
The novel was translated by Brian Stableford as The Vampire and the Devils Son in, When Ponson du Terrail embarked inon writing the first novel of the Rocambole series, LHéritage Mystérieux also known as Les Drames de Pa Pierre Alexis Joseph Ferdinand, vicomte de Ponson du TerrailJulyJanuarywas a French writer.
He was a prolific novelist, producing in the space of twenty years some seventy three volumes, and is best remembered today for his creation of the fictional character of Rocambole.
Ponson du Terrails early works squarely belonged to the Gothic novel genre: his La Baronne Trépasséewas a murky Ann Radcliffe like tale of revenge in the macabre surroundings ofth century Germany Black Forest.
The novel was translated by Brian Stableford as The Vampire and the Devil's Son in, When Ponson du Terrail embarked inon writing the first novel of the Rocambole series, LHéritage Mystérieux also known as Les Drames de Paris for the daily newspaper La Patrie, he merely meant to copy the success of Eugène Sues best selling Les Mystères de Paris.
Rocamboles importance to Mystery fiction and Adventure novels cannot be underestimated, as it represents the transition from the old fashioned Gothic novel to modern heroic fiction.
The word rocambolesque has become common in French to label any kind of fantastic adventures, especially those with multiple new turns in the story.
Rocambole became a huge success, providing a constant and considerable source of revenue to Ponson du Terrail, who continued churning out his adventures.
In total, he produced nine Rocambole novels, His other notable novels include Les Coulisses du mondeand Le Forgeron de la Cour Dieu, In August, as Ponson du Terrail had embarked on a new Rocambole saga when Emperor Napoléon III surrendered to Germany.
Ponson fled from Paris to his country estate near Orléans, where he gathered a group of like minded companions and began a guerilla style warfare, not unlike what Rocambole himself would have done.
However, Ponson was soon forced to flee to Bordeaux after the Germans burned down his castle, He died in Bordeaux in, leaving the saga of Rocambole uncompleted and was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris.
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