In a message dated 14/8/02 7:31:11 pm,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
<< Helena >>
Etienne I think it was an interview with Pouy that I saw the
reference to Manchette and the origin of the term "polar."
Though it might have been that he was saying that Manchette
gave the term added meaning by thinking of his fiction as a
"snapshot of society." By the way, Helena's Les Flics... and
Le Bon Dieu have been, or will soon be, reprinted in France,
while his Defense du roman noir also appears in Polar 23. And
speaking of Manchette, have you come across the City Lights
translations of, presumably, La position du tireur couch頡nd
Trois hommes ᠡbattre. One hopes they will sell well enough
for City Lights to publish more such work, by Manchette and
others, but sort of doubt it. I always liked Manchette's film
and literary reviews, and just ordered Chroniques and Les
yeux du momie published by Rivage. Any comments on either of
these? Don't know why I haven't come across them before,
particularly since I seem to spend an inordinate amount of
time in French bookshops. Woody Haut
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