| Summary: | The Thief, by George Darien, is a novel telling Georges Randal’s adventures. This young man strives to recover himself, because of an injustice, rooted in his family by a false-heathed and grasping uncle. Then the story becomes a pastiche of serialized novel, at once in the stages of chronology, and in its defining criterions. Darien uses this characteristic of genre, probably hoping to write following episodes of his heroe’s misadventures, at the beginning of the twentieth century. And there are some who are inspired by this model, adapting The Thief : in 1967, Louis Malle produces a film, and a comic book by Bernard Seyer is published in 1986 by Humanoïdes associés. So the serial is brought up to date, without distorting the novelistic dynamics of entitling and of narrative content stood by Darien. And this novel (1897) has certain similarities to an antinovel, written by the man who longed for being the anti-authority novelist in the fin de siècle period.
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