At 20:37 07-08-03 -0700, you wrote:
>A fan of Jimmy Giuffre has already won my
preliminary
>admiration. I bet Manchette liked Serge Chaloff, too,
for
>which I would give him lots of generosity.
>
>He sounds like a cool writer.
>
>Best,
>
>mrt
Manchette was all his life long a great fan of jazz (mainly
modern jazz). The list of what he liked therein could be long
and not limited to Giuffre and his trio, Giuffre playing at
Music Inn with the MJQ, or even his concert with Paul Bley.
To be noticed: he was also a cinema aficionado and wrote very
personal film reviews for some magazines; he produced also
scripts for French films.
He's not only cool, he's one of the best of the French
HB/Noir. A major influence on a lot of contemporary French
writers.
I personally think that Baudrillard can be just a "rigolo"
most of the time, but full of his own importance. If I
remember well he had a lot of followers in the US where he
was teaching and conferencing in universities. Guy Debord was
a little bit over the top with his lettrisme movement in art,
but I think that his essays on the foreseen total "capture",
and control, of all the important media by non-democatic
powers were visionary
(written during the 60s), as we are now living it in all the
developed countries. He committed suicide in 1994.
All this being said, read Manchette's novels.
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
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