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author José Pablo Feinmann. It was published in Spanish in

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by Legasa in 1979, 1983 and 1987.Lockhart, Latin American Mystery Writer
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in 1996 and 2006, and by Planeta in 2015. It was translated into French by Francois Campo-Timal and published in Paris with the title ''Les Derniers jours de la victime'' by

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in 1991 and by Le Livre de Poche (LGF) in 1993. This book is a novela negra, the Spanish term for

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. The plot of the novel follows the

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Raúl Mendizábal, who is spying on a mysterious person named Rodolfo Külpe, whom he has been paid to kill. In 1982, it was adapted into film for the first time in the homonymous Argentine classic '' Últimos días de la víctima'', directed by Adolfo Aristarain. In 1988, it was adapted again for '' Two to Tango'', an Argentine-American coproduction directed by Hector Olivera, with

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as executive producer. It was also adapted for the French- Cuban

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'' Les derniers jours de la victime'' (1995), directed by

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."Les derniers jours de la victime"
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References

Sources

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* (2004)'' QueHacer'', issues 146–148, page 102 * Giuseppe Petronio, Jorge B Rivera and Luigi Volta. "José Pablo Feinmann".'' Los héroes "difíciles": la literatura policial en la Argentina y en Italia''. Corregidor. 1991. pp. 143–150. See also page 25
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* (2001)'' Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana'', issue 54, page 5
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* (2001)'' Semiosis'', issue 7, page 5
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