Publication details
Manchette des paumés ou la marginalité intérieure des personnages du roi du néo-polar
| Title in English | Manchette des paumés - On the inner marginality of the characters created by the king of the neo-polar genre |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | L'Ull cri´tic |
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| Web | https://repositori.udl.cat/bitstream/handle/10459.1/65975/ullcri_a2018n21-22p203.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.21001/luc.21.22.13 |
| Keywords | French crime fiction ; Roman noir ; Terrorism ;French History 1970-1980 ; Marginality ; Jean-Patrick Manchette |
| Description | The story of the French neo-polar style is above all a story of disputing the acts of conforming and belonging to official structures of society. The disrespect the consumer society holds for the characters of the neo-polar genre places them in an internal marginality which, in a crisis situation, rises up to the surface and the characters - who are already prey to their own fantasies - become the prey of the representatives of the public order. Both the slow and abrupt shifts in inner and outer marginalization are the subject of our analysis which is based on the novels Nada (1973), The Little Blue of the West Coast (1976) and The Prone Gunman (1981) by the influential author of the neo-polar genre - JeanPatrick Manchette (1942-1995). |