Philippe Djian plays with the colors of the noir novel

Who would be wary of Nathan, the narrator of Philippe Djian’s new novel? We would give him the good Lord without confession. Nathan is a journalist. Devoted, he spends himself without counting on others. He is the ideal son-in-law. Through him, Djian has fun deceiving our expectations, pushing the codes of the noir novel to the limit. At the limit, because it never becomes parodic: its elegance is to know how to stay in an in-between.