Jean-Patrick Manchette

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Jean-Patrick Manchette (born December 19, 1942 in Marseille , † June 3, 1995 in Paris ) was a French writer and journalist , who is particularly known as a crime writer and critic of crime novels .

life and work

Jean-Patrick Manchette was the author of 'classic' crime novels and novel noirs , but also a literary and film critic who made the new French crime novel of the 1970s famous. He also wrote dialogues and scripts for film and television and worked as a translator. He was considered an important representative of neo-polar , a variant of Roman noir, but also stood in a direct line of tradition with the great masters of American hardboiled detective crime novels ( Hammett and Chandler ).

He was politically active from an early age, especially as an opponent of the Algerian war , then in the left-wing extremist scene and in the movement of the Situationist International . He was also a big fan of jazz .

He made his debut in the Série noire , a series of books at Gallimard specializing in Roman noir , in 1971 with Laissez bronzer les cadavres (together with Jean-Pierre Bastid ) and with L'Affaire N'Gustro , which was followed by nine other novels. He has also translated works by Robert Littell , Robert Bloch , John Buell , Ross Thomas and Donald E. Westlake and was a literary critic for the magazines Charlie Hebdo , Polar and Liberation . The 2015 film The Gunman is based on one of his novels.

Manchette has also written numerous scripts for television series and movies since the 1960s. He fell ill with severe agoraphobia and spent most of the rest of his life in his home. He died of lung cancer on June 3, 1995.

His son Doug Headline is a film critic and director. In 2018, together with Max Cabanes, he wrote the scenario for the comic book Nada , which is an adaptation of his father's novel of the same name.

Quote

"Le bon roman noir est un roman social, un roman de critique sociale, qui prend pour anecdote des histoires de crimes." (Jean-Patrick Manchette, 1993)

"A good novel noir is a social novel, a socially critical novel that takes the story of a crime as the superficial plot." (Jean-Patrick Manchette, 1993)

Works

Novels

Single issues
  • 1971 Laissez bronzer les cadavres! (in cooperation with Jean-Pierre Bastid)
    • Let the carcasses brown! German by Katarina Grän and Ronald Voullié; Distel, Heilbronn 2007. ISBN 978-3-923208-83-8
  • 1971 L'Affaire N'Gustro
    • Save your skin, killer - the affair N'Gustro, German by Rudolf Brenner; Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1990. ISBN 3-404-19145-5
    • The affair N'Gustro, German by Stefan Linster; Distel, Heilbronn 2004. ISBN 3-923208-64-2
  • 1972 Ô dingos, ô châteaux! (New edition 1975 as Folle à tuer )
    • The killer in the labyrinth, German by Rudolf Brenner, Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1991. ISBN 3-404-19157-9
    • New translation: Tödliche Luftschlösser, German by Stefan Linster, Distel, Heilbronn 2002. ISBN 3-923208-63-4
  • 1972 Nada
  • 1972 L'Homme au boulet rouge (with Barth Jules Sussman)
  • 1973 Morgue pleine (reissued 1984 as Polar )
    • Seven steps to heaven, German by Almuth Lindner-Popp, Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1992. ISBN 3-404-19164-1
    • New translation: Volles Morgue, German by Christina Mansfeld and Stefan Linster; Distel, Heilbronn 2000. ISBN 3-923208-43-X
  • 1975 Que d'os!
    • With almost light skin, German by Rudolf Brenner, Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1991. ISBN 3-404-19152-8
    • New translation: Knüppeldick, German by Christina Mansfeld and Stefan Linster; Distel, Heilbronn 2001. ISBN 3-923208-44-8
  • 1976 Le Petit bleu de la côte Ouest (new edition 1980 as Trois hommes à abattre )
    • Killers don't introduce themselves, German by Wolfgang Proll; Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1983. ISBN 3-548-10228-X
    • New translation: West Coast Blues, German by Stefan Linster; Distel, Heilbronn 2000. ISBN 3-923208-62-6
  • 1977 fatal
    • Heart made of lead, German by Rudolf Brenner, Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1993. ISBN 3-404-19180-3
    • New translation: Fatal, German by Christina Mansfeld; Distel, Heilbronn 2001. ISBN 3-923208-47-2
  • 1982 La Position du shooter couché
    • The position of the sleeping killer, German from?, Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1989. ISBN 3-404-19137-4
    • New translation: Position: stop lying, German by Stefan Linster; Distel, Heilbronn 2003. ISBN 3-923208-65-0
  • 1996 La Princesse you sang
Work edition

comics

  • 1978 Griffu , with drawings by Tardi
  • 1979 Mélanie White , with drawings by Serge Clerc .
  • 2005 Le petit bleu de la côte ouest , comic version of the novel with drawings by Tardi
    • Killer do not introduce themselves, German by Martin Budde; Ed. Moderne, Zurich 2006. ISBN 3-03731-008-1
  • 2010 La Position du tireur couché , comic version of the novel with drawings by Tardi

Literary and film criticism (collections)

  • 1996 Chroniques , Paris: Rivages, coll. Ecrits noirs
    • Chroniques. Essays on the Roman noir, German by Katarina Grän and Ronald Vouillié. Distel, Heilbronn 2005. ISBN 3-923208-78-2
  • 1997 Les Yeux de la momie: chroniques de cinéma . Paris: Rivages, coll. Ecrits noirs
  • 1999 Cache ta joie! et autres textes . Paris: Rivages, coll. Ecrits noirs
  • 2014 Portrait in Noir. Prose, interviews, letters, reviews, a script. Original edition. Ed. Doug Headline. German by Leopold Federmair; Alexander Verlag , Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-389581-341-2

Filmography (script, template and / or dialogues)

  • 1966 Scourges of Eroticism (La peur et l'amour) - Director: Max Pécas
  • 1967 Daughters of Sin (Une femme aux abois) - Director: Max Pécas
  • 1968 Socrates (Le Socrate) - Director: Robert Lapoujade
  • 1972 Ras l'bol - Director: Michel Huisman
  • 1974 Nada
  • 1975 The Unshackled
  • 1975 Declared fair game (Folle à tuer) - Director: Yves Boisset
  • 1976 Computers morden leise (L'ordinateur des pompes funèbres) - directed by Gérard Pirès
  • 1979 The Police War (La guerre des polices) - directed by Robin Davis
  • 1980 killers don't introduce themselves
  • 1981 Save your skin, killer
  • 1982 The shock
  • 1982 The Henchmen (Légitime violence) - Director: Serge Leroy
  • 1982 Les Maîtres du temps - Director: René Laloux
  • 1983 Wasp's Nest (La Crime) - Director: Philippe Labro
  • 1984 Polar - Under the Shadow Line (Polar) - Director: Jacques Bral (based on the novel Morgue pleine )
  • 1984 Fatal Promise (Aveugle, que vois-tu)

TV series (script, template and / or dialogues)

  • 1966 Les Globe-trotters by Claude Boissol
  • 1974 Histoires insolites
  • 1984 Série noire dirigé by Marcel Bluwal
  • 1986 Le tiroir secret
  • 1987 Noces de plomb

literature

Essays
  • Philip Anderson: Roman noir and Subjectivity. The Last Three Novels of Jean-Patrick Manchette . In: Australian Journal of French Studies , No. 43.1, 2006, pp. 70-79. (About Le Petit Bleu de la côte ouest , Fatale and La Position du tireur couché .)
Books
  • Marie-Hélène Carpentier: Jean-Patrick Manchette (1964-1981). An impossible literature; ecrits for the cinema and the roman noir . Dissertation, New York University 2005.
  • Robert Deleuse (ed.): Le polar français. À Jean-Patrick Manchette in memoriam . Paris 1995, ISBN 2-911127-19-6 .
  • Franck Frommer: Jean-Patrick Manchette, le récit d'un engagement manqué . Kimé, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84174-309-8 (Review by Cécile de Bary on Fabula.org [1] .)
  • Jean-François Gerault: Jean-Patrick Manchette. Parcours d'une œuvre . Encrages, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-251-74145-1 .
  • Benoît Mouchart: Manchette, le nouveau roman noir . Séguier-Archimbaud, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-84049-495-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nada. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Manchette, Jean-Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1995
Place of death Paris