Author | José Giovanni |
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Language | French |
Publisher | Éditions Gallimard |
Publication date | 1958 |
Publication place | France |
Pages | 253 |
Le deuxième souffle ( lit. 'The Second Wind') is a 1958 novel by the French writer José Giovanni. It is about the aging French gangster Gustave "Gu" Minda who escapes from prison and becomes entangeled in a plot to rob a security van in Marseille. It was Giovanni's second novel and was published in the Série noire collection of éditions Gallimard. [1]
The novel is the basis for the 1966 film Le deuxième souffle directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and its 2007 remake The Second Wind directed by Alain Corneau. [2] [3]