Every day, Stéphane Place offers you a literature break, in partnership with the Librairie Mollat ​​de Bordeaux. This Friday, "Manchette Letters of Bad Weather, Correspondence 1977 - 1995" by Jean-Patrick Manchette.

"Bad weather letters cuff, Correspondence 1977 - 1995" by Jean-Patrick Manchette

213 unpublished letters collected in this publication. The correspondence of Jean-Patrick Manchette from 1977 to 1995, one of the masters of the thriller, of the new French thriller since he knew how to renew the genre of the noir novel in the 70s. At the top of the bill throughout this period , cult books ("Let the corpses tan", "Nada", "Full morgue", "The position of the reclining shooter" to name a few) without forgetting the adaptations for cinema, criticism and translations. Manchette, fine scholar, scholar, rooted in the left movement of that time, died 25 years ago. Today, the publication of this correspondence, maintained with great care and attention, delighted Véronique Marrot, bookseller at Mollat.

And whether he writes to his banker, to his publisher's accountancy, or to Pierre Siniac, Jean Echenoz or even James Ellroy, Manchette does it in his own style. Lines imbued with humor, generosity, sometimes a keenly expressed anger… Gilles Magniont, Bordeaux academic, specialist in the noir novel.

Freedom of tone which characterizes the correspondence of Jean-Patrick Manchette from 1977 to 1995, these "Letters from the bad weather" is the title of this book.

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