Desperado as Commodity
Alex Harvey: Jean-Patrick Manchette, 26 May 2022
The N’Gustro Affair
by Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
NYRB, 180 pp., £12, September 2021,978 1 68137 512 0 Show More
by Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
NYRB, 180 pp., £12, September 2021,
No Room at the Morgue
by Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated by Alyson Waters.
NYRB, 188 pp., £12, August 2020,978 1 68137 418 5 Show More
by Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated by Alyson Waters.
NYRB, 188 pp., £12, August 2020,
“... An eruption of laughter, shouting and ocean spray (and a guy braying hysterically – ‘Pass, Roger, pass!’). A whole tiny universe oblivious to the fact that Georges Gerfaut was being murdered!He fights them off and flees. Life on the lam seems more bearable than his conventional former life. For a moment he feels free: ‘I can make whatever I want of ... ”