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Mademoiselle Bambu

Pierre Mac Orlan

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Mademoiselle Bambù is Pierre Mac Orlan’s take on the spy novel, rewritten and expanded four times over from 1932 until its publication in its final, consolidated form in 1966. Set in Hamburg, London, Palermo, Brest, and other ports of call in the anxious Europe of the 1920s and 1930s, Mademoiselle Bambù tells the tales of three secret agents: the melancholic adventurer and accidental spy, Captain Hartmann; his enigmatic mistress from Naples , “Signorina Bambù”; and the sinister Père Barbançon, who retires from his life of espionage and murder to eke out his troubled days in an aptly named “Boarding House of Usher,” where shadows are as likely to strangle a man as they are to haunt him.

Like all of Mac Orlan’s novels, Mademoiselle Bambù is less a novel than a barometer of societal unease, crippling melancholy, and dark humor. It is also one of the clearer examples of what the author named the social fantastic: a less romantic notion of the fantastic as it is commonly understood, translated through the lens of modernity. Instead of the eruption of the supernatural into the everyday, Mac Orlan located a new form of the fantastic in the eruption of modernity in social life, with diabolical emanations not in supernatural beings or creatures, but in such real-life human beings as Jack the Ripper, Henri Désiré Landru, and Mata Hari—personages whose influence makes itself known in the novel at hand.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Wakefield Press

Release: November 21, 2017

ISBN: 1939663253

ISBN 13: 9781939663252

Mademoiselle Bambu

Pierre Mac Orlan

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Mademoiselle Bambù is Pierre Mac Orlan’s take on the spy novel, rewritten and expanded four times over from 1932 until its publication in its final, consolidated form in 1966. Set in Hamburg, London, Palermo, Brest, and other ports of call in the anxious Europe of the 1920s and 1930s, Mademoiselle Bambù tells the tales of three secret agents: the melancholic adventurer and accidental spy, Captain Hartmann; his enigmatic mistress from Naples , “Signorina Bambù”; and the sinister Père Barbançon, who retires from his life of espionage and murder to eke out his troubled days in an aptly named “Boarding House of Usher,” where shadows are as likely to strangle a man as they are to haunt him.

Like all of Mac Orlan’s novels, Mademoiselle Bambù is less a novel than a barometer of societal unease, crippling melancholy, and dark humor. It is also one of the clearer examples of what the author named the social fantastic: a less romantic notion of the fantastic as it is commonly understood, translated through the lens of modernity. Instead of the eruption of the supernatural into the everyday, Mac Orlan located a new form of the fantastic in the eruption of modernity in social life, with diabolical emanations not in supernatural beings or creatures, but in such real-life human beings as Jack the Ripper, Henri Désiré Landru, and Mata Hari—personages whose influence makes itself known in the novel at hand.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Wakefield Press

Release: November 21, 2017

ISBN: 1939663253

ISBN 13: 9781939663252

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