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Fallen angels, satanic manuals, and a passion for the works of Raphael Sabatini and Alexandre Dumas among others--this is the stuff of Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte's engrossing novel The Club Dumas. Set in a world of antiquarian booksellers where dealers would gladly betray their own mothers to get their hands on a rare volume, The Club Dumas is a thinking person's thriller: in addition to a riveting plot, the book is full of intriguing details that range from the working habits of Alexandre Dumas to how one might go about forging a 17th-century text. Woven through these meditations is enough murder, sex, and the occult to keep both the hero, Lucas Corso, and the reader hopping.

As in his previous novel, The Flanders Panel, set in the world of art restoration, Mr. Pérez-Reverte has written a literary thriller to tease both the intellect and adrenaline gland. Lucas Corso makes a complex, ultimately sympathetic hero, and there's plenty to delight in the intricate twists and turns the story takes before the mystery of The Club Dumas is finally solved. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.



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The hero of Spanish author Perez-Reverte's freewheeling, ambitious literary mystery is Lucas Corso, an itinerant rare-book hunter who'd gladly sell his grandmother for a first edition. When a wealthy cookbook publisher and bibliophile is found hanged in his study, leaving behind an original handwritten chapter from Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, antiquarian book dealer Flavio LaPorte asks his friend Corso to authenticate the manuscript. What begins as a straightforward assignment soon complicates into a bewildering tangle of literary gamesmanship as the book detective finds himself swept into a real-life adventure-serial and crime novel rolled into one. As the action shifts from Madrid to Portugal to Paris, the intrepid, bad-tempered, gin-swilling Corso encounters a host of intriguing characters, including devil worshippers, obsessed book collectors and a hypnotically appealing femme fatale. Suspense-filled and ingenious, Perez-Reverte's latest (after The Flanders Panel) is also something of a primer on the rare-book business and a witty meditation on the relationship between book lovers and the texts they adore. Rights: Howard Morhaim.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Umberto Eco fans will love this one!, Juil 14 2004
The Club Dumas was an interesting mystery from start to finish. The main character, Corso, is a well-rounded, interesting character that could be classified as an anti-hero. The whole premise of seeking out other copies of a book written by the Devil and the misadventures associated with locating said copies was entertaining. I won't rehash the plot as that has been covered by other reviewers adequately, but I would like to say that I enjoyed this multi-layered story immensely as well as the allusions to other literary works. After reading this book I was inspired to read the Three Musketeers, Scaramouche, and The Devil in Love. Perez-Reverte does an excellent job of weaving history and literature into the plot without bogging the reader down. This is definitely a story that will be enjoyed by anyone who has read Foucalt's Pendulum or The Name of the Rose. I have also seen The Ninth Gate, which was based on the book, but The Club Dumas was infinitely better and filled in more of the details as is usually the case with books vs. movies.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 You're as dead as your books, Corso, Aoû 12 2008
Par Craobh Rua "Craobh Rua" (N. Ireland) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Club Dumas (Paperback)
"The Dumas Club" was first published in 1993, and was first translated into English in 1996. "The Ninth Gate", which was directed by Roman Polanski and starred Johnny Depp, was loosely based on the novel.

The story is told by Boris Balkan, a rather well-known in Spain's publishing industry. He's done the occasional translation, edited a few other books, written reviews and ran courses for writers- as such, he's regarded as Spain's most influential literary critic. In fact, when someone needs an opinion on the nineteenth century novel, Balkan is the man to ask. It's this expertise that leads to his meeting with Lucas Corso - who proves to be the story's central character.

Corso is what Balkan describes as a "mercenary of the book world". He works for a very small number of clients - exceptionally rich book dealers who pay very well to avoid getting their hands dirty. He does appear to be very good at his job - patient, an excellent memory, an expert knowledge of the literary world and a conscience that doesn't bother him unduly. He has also mastered a number of rabbit-like expressions, designed to tease more information out of the person he's questioning. However, he can change from a rabbit sharing half a carrot to a mean wolf, off on the hunt, in an instant. (He is also an expert on Napoleon's battles, and has a certain obsession with Waterloo in particular). Corso comes to Balkan with a manuscript he's wants examined - chapter forty-two from "The Three Musketeers", apparently in Dumas' own handwriting. Balkan refers Corso to a graphologist, based in Paris, by the name of Achille Replinger - both a friend and an expert on nineteenth-century French writers.

Corso is hoping to authenticate the manuscript on behalf of a friend called Flavio La Ponte - who had, allegedley, bought the manuscript from a publisher called Enrique Taillefer. Slightly awkwardly, Taillefer had died the previous week in an apparent suicide. (The unfortunate Taillefer had also failed to leave a note). Corso and LaPonte have known each other for many years and have quite a bit in common - Corso, for his part, nearly seems fond of LaPonte. Together, the pair have founded (and remain the only two members of) the Brotherhood of Nantucket Harpooneers - in honour of their shared enthusiasm for "Moby Dick".

Corso is also working on an investigation for Varo Borja - Spain's leading bookdealer and a man who can always afford the asking price. Borja is particularly interested in a book called "The Book of the Nine Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows", written in the seventeenth century by a man called Astride Torchia. Since the book was regarded as a dummies guide for summoning the Devil, this naturally got Torchia in trouble with the Inquisition. (Everything they could find written by Torchia was burned - a similar fate was endured by the author not long afterwards). While one copy of the Nine Doors did apparently survive, there are now believed to be three copies - one in Borja's collection, another in Portugal and the third in Paris. Borja wants Corso to discover which of the three copies is authentic. Since Corso will be travelling to Paris at Borja's expense anyhow, he decides to look up Replinger while there. In time, Corso comes to believe the two investigations are somehow linked. Furthermore, it appears he is being stalked by flesh-and-blood versions of Rochefort and Milady - two characters who worked for Richlieu in "The Three Musketeers". Naturally, that leaves the implication there's also a real-life Richlieu somewhere calling the shots...

This is a hugely enjoyable book - it's one that just bounces along and it constantly had me smiling. It obviously owes a certain amount to "The Three Musketeers", and I picked up a few things about that Dumas I didn't know before. (Dumas isn't the only one to have an influence - there's a couple of nods in the direction of Umberto Eco and Sherlock Holmes). Absolutely recommended - I'll certainly be reading more by Arturo Perez Reverte.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Textual Layering, Juil 8 2004
When I was ordering this novel, the storyline seemed oddly familiar. When I received the book and examined the jacket cover, I realized that not too long ago I saw a movie that had to have been based on it. The movie was "The Ninth Gate" with Johnny Depp. Knowing since childhood how much worse movies are than the books they depict, I found myself - rather unusually - in a situation of having seen the movie first, which made me hesitate, as some of the suspense of traveling through a new book, especially one representing the adventure genre, was necesarily missing. Of course, I didn't dwell on the feeling too long and plunged right in, and very quickly the book fleshed itself out from the bones of it's Hollywood double. If you think that knowing the movie will keep you from enjoying this book (as if any movie could ever really do justice to a book!), please reconsider.

Aside from a smart, erudite and engrossing storyline, this book goes on to subtly examine the roles of writer, reader and narrator, with all the attendant critical dilemmas of perspective, genre, fictional boundaries, originals and copies, story-within-a-story - reading oneself into one and writing oneself out, with the resulting constant feeling of the author's wink and smile as you read on, especially at the unmasking. If you don't read with such collegiate thoughts in mind, such ideas will not hinder what is just a good read, so read anyway.

Of course, the book is much more magnetic and seductive if you have ever lost your heart to a Dumas novel. So there is no question that part of why I enjoyed it as much as I did is that one particular Dumas novel is one of my favorite books of all time. If you feel the same, even if you may be slightly embarrassed at what seems like a light choice of favorite, don't be: certainly, the "actual" Club Dumas of the novel will make you feel in good fictional company. If you consider yourself more of a "serious" reader, the lit. crit. possibilities I mentioned should make up for what appears to be a light read. It's a book lover's book, a "reader's" book, and as such extremely well done. Enjoy.

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