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Jean-Patrick Manchette
Jean-Patrick Manchette (19 December 1942, Marseille – 3 June 1995, Paris) was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of the 1970s - 1980s. His stories are violent explorations of the human condition and French society. Manchette was politically to the left and his writing reflects this through his analysis of social positions and culture. His books are
of California Press, 1999.
- Thierry Jonquet. "Mygale", City Lights, 2003.
- _____. "Tarantula", Serpent's Tail, 2005.
- Laplanche & Pontalis. "The Language of Psychoanalysis", Norton, 1974.
- Henri Lefebvre. "The Production of Space", Blackwell, 1991.
- Jean-Patrick Manchette. "Three to Kill", City Lights, 2002.
- Paco Ignacio Taibo II. "68",