Regarding Tribe's question...
Manchette was the inspiration, in the sense that I had read
about him, and his disenchantment with the procedural novels
that dominated French crime fiction at the time--and then I
read The Prone Gunmen, and was very much drawn to the
stripped down style, the apparent nihilism, the refusal to
glamorize the violence of the main character.
Some ways, The Prone Gunmen is a political thriller, other
ways an assassin novel, and what excited me about the book
was that it both operated inside the conventions and outside
them at the same time.
Anyway, it occurred to me, how as crime novelists--but I also
think this is true for all novelists, in whatever mode we
work--that we are all bound up in certain conventions. And
how the conventions themselves, the form and traditions of
literary genres, so determine determine what it is possible
to say.
They are a gift, but they are also a trap.
And Manchette was somebody who had seemed to have broken out
of that trap.
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