In case you haven't seen it already, you
might want to know about an awfully good article in TLS (the
5/23/2003 issue, page 23) devoted to French
*polar* novels. The article's author is Ruth Morse.
Among the bits that caught my eye
were:
"
[...] conspicuously absent in France are the
eco-thriller,
the
feminist PI, the locked room, the forensic legals, and
the
panoply
of Anglo-Saxon parody and humour, although two
big-selling
women, Andrea H. Japp and Maud Tabachnik, imitate
American
trends in graphic violence."
"In
France the tradition of hard-boiled detection has
always
been
associated with the Left (even if the lone PI, who is
not
part
of organized political resistance could be classified
as
a
radical conservative.)"
(The
second comment might be a good explanation for Jean-Luc
Godard's
having, alledgedly, based his 1966 "Made in U.S.A." on
Richard
Stark's "The Jugger.")
This is almost entirely new teritory to me.
One of the names Morse mentions, Jean-Claude Izzo, can be
found in the Rara-Avis archives. But does anyone have anthing
to say about authors Claude Amoz or Dominique Manotti?
Chris
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