Name: The Gunman
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Author: Jean-Patrick Manchette
ISBN: 9780872866645

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jean-Patrick Manchette

Publisher

City Lights Books

Language

English

Pages

180

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.3 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9780872866645

Synopsis "The Gunman"

"There's not a superfluous word or overdone effect . . . one of the last cool, compact and shockingly original crime novels Manchette left as his legacy to modern noir fiction."--New York TimesMovie-tie in publication. "The Gunman" stars Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, and Ray Winstone, and is directed by Pierre Morel (Taken).Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game, so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. But the Organization won't let him go: they have other plans for him. In a violent tale that shatters as many illusions as bodies, Jean-Patrick Manchette subjects his characters and the reader alike to a fierce exercise in style.This tightly plotted, corrosive parody of "the success story" is widely considered to be Manchette's masterpiece, and was named a New York Times "Notable Book." The Gunman is a classic of modern noir.Also available in its original edition titled The Prone Gunman, along with Manchette's Three to Kill, all published by City Lights."For Manchette and the generation of writers who followed him, the crime novel is no mere entertainment, but a means to strip bare the failures of society, ripping through veils of appearance, deceit, and manipulation to the greed and violence that are the society's true engines."--Boston GlobeJean-Patrick Manchette was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the 1970s and early 80s, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of that time. His stories are violent, existentialist explorations of the human condition and French society. Jazz saxophonist and screenwriter, Manchette was also a left-wing activist influenced as much by the writings of the Situationist International as by Dashiell Hammett.

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Jean-Patrick Manchette fue un novelista, guionista y crítico literario francés, considerado una de las figuras más influyentes en la renovación de la novela negra europea del siglo XX. Su estilo se distinguió por una escritura sobria y precisa, que fusionaba el relato policial con una fuerte carga política y social. Obras como De balas y bolas ejemplifican su capacidad para convertir historias de crimen en un retrato lúcido de la realidad, donde el trasfondo ideológico es tan relevante como la intriga narrativa.

Además de su producción literaria, Manchette tradujo y escribió guiones para cine y televisión, ampliando su impacto cultural más allá de los libros. Su legado se asocia con la corriente del “neo-polar”, que reconfiguró el género policial en Francia al dotarlo de un realismo crítico. Reconocido como un autor de culto, su obra sigue siendo referente para escritores y cineastas que exploran los vínculos entre violencia, poder y sociedad.

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