Samedi

Toujours l'esprit brouillon...

 

L'autre jour, en regardant un "Maigret" à la télévision, tout soudain je découvre le clin d'oeil du réalisateur... en arrière-plan...Frédéric Dard, le "père" de San Antonio. Frédéric Dard vécut pas loin d'ici, à Bonnefontaine là où je vais parfois à la messe.

"He is one of the most famous French crime novels writers of the second half of the 20th century. He was also one of the most prolific, since he wrote more than 300 novels throughout his career. Under the pseudonym of San-Antonio (with the hyphen, which was originally a mistake), which he chose randomly with his finger on a map of America while he was looking for an English-sounding name for the famous police superintendent who is the main hero of his novels. San-Antonio is both in the case the main hero and the pseudonym of the writer, and books are written in the first person.

Frédéric Dard wrote 173 adventures of San-Antonio, of which millions of copies were sold. A San-Antonio is likely to be found in any French household.^{[citation needed]} Detective Superintendent Antoine San-Antonio is a kind of French James Bond without gadgets, flanked by two colleagues, the old, sickly but wise inspector César Pinaud and the gargantuesque inspector Alexandre-Benoît Bérurier. He is a member of the French secret service and has to fulfill impossible missions given by "Le Vieux" (the Old Man), later known as "Achilles", the head of the French police. With the help of his colleagues he always succeeds through various adventures.

Written in a classical crime novel style at the beginning in the 50's (classic spy stories), San Antonio adventures become more satirical from the beginning of the sixties and leave the strict format of the crime novel literature. The style is very influenced by the French writer Céline but is also full of French slang and new words coined by the author himself (to the point of publishing a specific San-Antonio Dictionary), which makes it quite difficult for non-native speakers. Frequent are the digressions where the author goes on ranting or raving about anything at hand, addressing the reader directly, often with sarcasm and mockery." Wikipedia

 

 

Zoé ne bouge qu'en début de soirée...

 

Un aller-retour "chez nous", Dulcinée doit préparer les offrandes pour son "Ciel".

L.T.

P.S.: Je n'ai jamais opposé la moindre résistance concernant les traditions que Dulcinée tient à respecter. Nous sommes samedi l'avant dernier jour de nos vacances au bord du lac Léman en compagnie de la chatte Zoé. Donc nous faisons cet aller-retour aujourd'hui... On en profite pour vider la boite à lettre, arroser les fleurs, le pain des oiseaux... 

La préparation des offrandes n'est une affaire toute simple qu'on expédie en quelques minutes. Tout doit etre accompli dans l'ordre. 

Dans un petit moment nous ferons la route à l'envers.

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