The Marseilles trilogy, written in the 1990s and featuring Fabio Montale (played on screen by Alain Delon), showcases the city through the eyes of an immigrant who, unlike his troublesome boyhood friends, became a cop. The hard-boiled Izzo is a leading name in Mediterranean noir, along with Massimo Carlotto (who spent many years in prison for murder, before being pardoned). The New York Times says Izzo’s books “are so thick with local colour it almost smothers the story”. There would surely have been more to enjoy had Izzo not died of lung cancer, aged 54 and at the height of his fame, in 2000

讓-克洛德·伊佐
法國

馬賽三部曲寫于20世紀90年代，書中刻畫了一位警察偵探蒙代爾（由阿蘭·德龍在銀幕上扮演），這個系列通過偵探蒙代爾——移民出身，但不同于他少年時代的朋友而成為一名警察——的眼睛，向人們展示了馬賽這座城市。風格無情的伊佐是地中海黑色偵探小說流派中的領潮人物，另一位等量級的人物是Massimo Carlotto（他在監獄中度過很多年，罪名是謀殺，之后受赦免出獄）。《紐約時報》稱伊佐的書“地方色彩如此濃厚，使得故事本身都快壓得沒氣了。”本來我們還可以欣賞更多他的作品，但他在2000年54歲的時候死于肺癌，當時他正處于聲名的巔峰。
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