[Celle qui n´etait plus]
Year:
1952
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Pushkin
Year of publication:
2015
Pages:
190
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
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Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
It has been constantly reprinted and adapted into film and television. Originally published under the title Celle qui n’était plus, it was jointly created by two important authors who renewed the detective genre in France.
The book is a suspense work that constantly maintains tension. The protagonist, Fernand Ravind, a sales representative who spends five days away from home each week because of his job, can no longer stand the routine life with his young wife Mirelle.
Together with his lover, an ambitious doctor, they hatch an elaborate plan to murder her; the plot includes a substantial insurance policy. Ravind hallucinates and thinks that his wife has come back from the dead to torment him.
Author: M S, Spain
Update on: May 2025