Destek Yayınları Satanic - Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac

The Satanic - Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac

In this psychological thriller from 1952, pierre boileau and thomas narcejac tell the story of a man who tries to kill his wife, driven to madness by his lover. Sales representative fernand decides to get rid of his wife mireille in order to marry and settle in antibes, in the south of france, with his doctor lover lucienne, using the money they will receive from life insurance. The duo devises a plan to give the impression that the victim died of accidental asphyxiation. While the plan is successfully implemented, after a certain point things start to go wrong. As strange events follow one another, blurring the line between victim and perpetrator, the novel takes on a semi-fantastic air. Boileau and narcejac, who are always preoccupied with the evil inherent in human nature and see character weakness as a part of this evil, focus on the thoughts passing through the mind of the fernand character, whom they embody with their weaknesses, flaws, and regrets. As events break through their limits, fernand's balance is disrupted, weakening his connection with reality day by day. Inspired by the film les diaboliques, a masterpiece by the french director henri-georges clouzot, which has been recorded in the history of cinema.