Impossible to decide in this collection of twenty-eight interviews granted to the press between 1973 and 1993, two years before his death. In Jean-Patrick Manchette, everything is good. Assertive radical, assertive and magnificent, we nod at this intelligence that makes you feel very small – wondering what could have happened since… Inside, aloud, the father of “neo-thriller” sweeps the “bric-a-brac” of the spy novel, which “seemed to him to be an almost despicable genre”, praises the noir novel, “on the contrary, excellent”, tossing out jubilant nastiness, such as: “some errors of nature such as Mickey Spillane”.
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Manchette opens up, unexpectedly, a subscriber to the French Chasseur, which he reads with “delight”, as a follower of “great clarity, very dry narration”. Headline, which understands how one becomes “sadistic” or “total junk”, but definitely not a cop…. Cuff, which explains the recipe for a good Black Series – a collection that his grandmother introduced him to -, tells the story of the cartoonist Jacques Tardi. Cuff which, in its lucidity, has not aged a bit. Required reading!
The extract that kills: Perhaps Flaubert Answers to the questionnaire taken from Panorama du thriller français contemporain, by Maurice Périsset (Editions L’Instant, 1986). What is, for you, the height of misery? Generalized work, in the submission to the economy.Where would you like to live?I would like to travel everywhere, and rest at the Grand Hotel in Nuwara Eliya, in the island of Ceylon, when this island was not in the throes of civil war .Your ideal of earthly happiness? End of the economy. Universal Republic. For which faults do you have the most indulgence? Delusions. Which novel heroes do you prefer? Frédéric Moreau. Des Esseintes. Kells (in Open Tomb, by Paul Cain). Who is your favorite historical figure? Perhaps Amenophis IV Akhenaten. Your favorite heroines in real life? My companion. And maybe Catherine II. Your heroines in fiction? Athena, Margo Channing in the movie All about Eve. Your favorite painter? Blake. Your favorite musician? Clifford Brown. Favorite quality in women? Intelligence. Your favorite virtue? Velocity. Your favorite occupation? Writing. Who would you like to be? Perhaps Flaubert. most valued in my friends? Intelligence. My main flaw? Indecision. My dream of happiness? I have none. What would be my greatest misfortune? to be? A very intelligent and very courageous man. My favorite color? Black. My favorite flower? The red rose. My favorite bird? The blackbird. My favorite prose writers? Flaubert and his disciples .My favorite poets?Shakespeare, William Blake.My heroes in real life?Question denied.My heroines in history?Catherine II. Emma Goldman.My heroes in the story?Hegel, Pancho Villa.My favorite names?Diphthong names.What do I hate most?Spiritual surrender, or resignation.Historical characters I despise most? Hesitates. The military fact that I admire the most? The mutinies. The reform that I admire the most? I don’t see. The gift of nature that I would like to have? Robustness. Current state of my mind? Boredom, caused by this quiz. My motto? “Less than all is not enough for Man” (Blake). essentially, of one or more crimes or misdemeanors. From the noir novel? Violent detective novel exposing the separation between morals, practical law, and good. What do you expect from the detective novel? Nothing.
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