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Eat Him If You Like

Eat Him If You Like

by Jean Teule

Translated by Emily Phillips

Published by: Gallic Books Limited

Imprint: Gallic Books

112 Pages, 4.00 x 7.00 in

Paperback
9781906040390
Published: October 2014

$12.95

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Jean Teulé reconstructs each step of one of the most shameful stories in the history of nineteenth-century France in this 'engrossing book' [Kirkus Reviews].

'Terrifyingly convincing’ Financial Times

A true story.

Tuesday 16 August 1870, Alain de Monéys, makes his way to the village fair. He plans to buy a heifer for a needy neighbour and find a roofer to repair the roof of the barn of a poor acquaintance.

He arrives at two o’clock. Two hours later, the crowd has gone crazy; they have lynched, tortured, burned and eaten him. How could such a horror be possible?

With frightening precision, Jean Teulé reconstructs each step of one of the most shameful stories in the history of nineteenth-century France.

Jean Teulé lived in the Marais with his partner, the French film actress Miou-Miou. An illustrator, filmmaker and television presenter, he was the prize-winning author of ten books including one based on the life of Verlaine. He died in 2022.

Emily Phillips studied French and Spanish at the University of Bath. She lives and works in Bristol.

'Sticking closely to the known facts, Jean Teulé’s novelisation offers no easy explanations for what happened but the transformation from rural idyll to hell on earth is terrifyingly convincing’ Financial Times

'Teulé’s milieu is centred on the “merriment of vice and cruelty”. His novels are bawdy, full of rollicking sex and roiling violence. However, he undercuts this with a graphic humour born of his earlier career as an illustrator' The Independent

'Exceptionally well written, Eat Him If You Like will have a very special appeal to suspenseful mystery enthusiasts, students of 19th Century French history' Midwest Book Review

'An engrossing book to be read in one big gulp' Kirkus Reviews

'Teulé’s vivid account of ordinary folk inexplicably transformed into monsters resonates long after reading' Publishers Weekly

'Makes you feel uncomfortable for all the right reasons … a thought provoking novella' Savidge Reads

Praise for Jean Tuelé

'His darkly comic tales delved into real-life murky milieus as well as his own baroque imagination, and detailed an array of misdeeds ranging from cuckoldry to cannibalism' The Telegraph

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