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Jean-Patrick Manchette (19 December 1942, Marseille – 3 June 1995, Paris) was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of that period.
Dec 4, 2020 · VIA NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS. Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) was a prolific French crime novelist, film and TV scriptwriter, translator, critic, and all-around laborer in Grub Street. His greatest achievement, almost certainly, was the cycle of ten or so dark social novels he produced in the 1970s the wake of (and much under the influence of ...
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Jun 25, 2020 · In addition to translating works of psychoanalysis, he has been active in the field of noir fiction, translating Thierry Jonquet’s Mygale (aka Tarantula), Yasmina Khadra’s Cousin K in collaboration with Alyson Waters; and several novels by Jean-Patrick Manchette. He is a member of the Translators’ Association of the Society of Authors and ...
Jun 3, 1995 · He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of the 1970s - 1980s . His stories are violent, existentialist explorations of the human condition and French society.
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Overview. Jean-Patrick Manchette. (1942—1995) Quick Reference. (1942–95). Author of several works of crime fiction (many of them filmed) in the new‐style polar manner [see Detective Fiction], of which he is one of the principal exponents. His ... From: Manchette, Jean‐Patrick in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French »
Aug 5, 2020 · Jean-Patrick Manchette’s protagonists are isolatoes. Georges Gerfault in Three to Kill, Julie Ballanger in The Mad and the Bad, Martin Terrier in The Prone Gunman, Aimée Joubert in Fatale: windowless monads, all of them. Memorable, violent, alone. Eugène Tarpon, Manchette’s private eye in No Room at the Morgue, is among these nations of ...
Mar 19, 2015 · Jean-Patrick Manchette. Translated by James Brook. Serpent’s Tail, 154pp, £7.99. The tense mood of Paris following the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher attacks echoes that of the French capital in the 1960s. Then, too, the city was marked by both the reality and the nervous anticipation of violence. That decade opened under the shadow of a ...
