Show Me the Way to Go Home: Melville's Le Samouraï
This article looks at Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 crime thriller Le Samouraï with reference to its source, Graham Greene's 'entertainment' novel, A Gun for Sale (1936), focusing on a shared use of allusions to fairy tales. It suggests that both artists use criminal
outsiders as anti-heroes to dramatise ideas of exile and 'home'.
Keywords: EXILE; FAIRY TALES; GRAHAM GREENE; JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE; LE SAMOURAÏ; OUTSIDERS
Language: French
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 December 2001
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