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23 maggio 2012  



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di Alessandro De Simone


Hugues Pagan costruisce un polar che più classico non si può, tra nebbie di nicotina, fiumi di whisky e non pochi cliché

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Il polar è un genere che ci ha regalato, specialmente nel suo periodo d’oro tra gli anni Quaranta e Cinquanta, capolavori ancora insuperati e che nulla hanno da invidiare ai migliori noir americani, così come il neo-polar, come viene etichettata la nuova via della letteratura nera francese dopo il 1968 e che ha visto come suo massimo esponente lo straordinario Jean-Pierre Manchette.
Hugues Pagan è figlio, artisticamente parlando, di entrambe le correnti e del cinema che da queste è derivato e la sua produzione, iniziata poco meno di trent’anni fa con il romanzo L’ingenuità delle opere fallite, può tranquillamente essere considerata tra le più importanti di questo genere così amato.
Quelli che restano è un esempio magistrale di neo-polar, in cui le atmosfere americane degli anni quaranta si fondono con quelle francesi dei Sessanta e tra un bourbon e una voluta di fumo, un pezzo di Coltrane e una notte di pioggia, si dipana l’indagine di un ex poliziotto ormai alla fine del servizio, malato di cancro e di memorie dolorose.
La copertina del romanzo di Hugues Pagan "Quelli che restano"Chess, ora investigatore privato con il trench e la sigaretta, deve trovare chi ha ucciso la donna di Fortune, un boss della prostituzione che cerca vendetta, e per farlo dovrà tornare a bazzicare i luoghi e i colleghi dell’Usine, uno dei più duri commissariati di Parigi, nonché uno dei più corrotti. Una discesa nel suo inferno personale che lo porterà a scoprire cose che avrebbe preferito evitare e neanche l’amore per la bella poliziotta Dinha, depressa e letale, riuscirà ad alleviare i dolori della sua vita.
Scritto con una classe non comune, ricco di descrizioni minuziose e con un linguaggio raffinato, Quelli che restano è un romanzo dalle atmosfere soffuse e avvolgenti, che deve molto alla letteratura americana gialla e poliziesca, da Chandler a Hammet e Spillane, ma che allo stesso tempo è fortemente ispirato dal cinema polar francese degli anni Sessanta. Pagan sviluppa l’intreccio con grande maestria, accompagnando il lettore in un’indagine solo apparentemente complessa, ma sviluppata invece con impressionante linearità, fino all’inevitabile conclusione e disvelamente finale.
Un romanzo di classe, come ormai se ne leggono pochi, fatto di pagine da sfogliare, ma anche di sensazioni fisiche che queste pagine sensuali trasudano, emozioni fortissime che non scivolano via quando si mette il segnalibro, ma ti restano addosso, tanto che basterebbero un trench e un borsalino per avere la possibilità di bersi un cognac in un fumoso bistrot parigino, conversando di jazz, belle donne e occasioni perdute.





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