Série noire
September 22, 2015
I am still currently on a Jean-Patrick Manchette jag. It's like finding someone holding the other half of the locket.
Robert Polito writing at Bookforum in 2011 says Manchette sets his Néo-polars "at the convergence of state crimes and individual yearnings":
My noir novella Aurélie is available as a digital edition from Amazon | Smashwords | Kobo | Barnes & Noble and Apple Books.
Robert Polito writing at Bookforum in 2011 says Manchette sets his Néo-polars "at the convergence of state crimes and individual yearnings":
Manchette crafted a sly rendition of Situationist détournement: a collage of redux plots that emerges as simultaneously a refinement and a travesty of noir ... The situations of the ten books Manchette published during the '70s and '80s, mostly in Gallimard's Série noire, sound so familiar that you're sure you've experienced them already ...The full article is here.
My noir novella Aurélie is available as a digital edition from Amazon | Smashwords | Kobo | Barnes & Noble and Apple Books.