Photo: Kevork Djansezian -AP-Sipa Last night we went to Lieu Unique in Nantes, which housed within a "cycle noir" Pop's University, François Angelier and Jean-Yves Bochet the issue Bad Genres France Culture. In Nantes, it is sometimes better to be Parisian Nantes to be invited into the high places of culture.
Course Title: James Ellroy : mythical figure of noir Epic - The violence is it related to the geography of cities?
You should know that the University was able to pop around to many people. Indeed, the Lieu Unique subscribers may attend for free at these courses, which would otherwise cost you 3 euros. Thus, a sociological examination of the public lets see a dominant female, who leans toward the fifties and social class undoubtedly higher. The program, it is often rich and supported by interesting speakers (remember a fascinating discussion with Tanguy Viel).
Yesterday evening from the introduction of doubt settled. We not note the sentences verbatim as it will be satisfied with the general idea. Know then that the detective is often poor, simple application of a recipe destined for "fans of thrillers" vaguely presented as arrears. Either. Perhaps to reassure his audience on its quality drive Angelier quote Genet and Artaud, Céline. Real literature, whatever. We are the first to say that there are sacred bad novels in the thriller, but say, there-there more than this noble white literature?
After we have held mythology James Ellroy (alcohol, the death of his mother, not really racist provocateur) they also often referred to as "character", our two sidekicks - a real show as a duo - the writings discussed the vision of an America by the thugs rather than its stars (Kennedy, Luther King Hoover ...) and the style Ellroy, of course. Terms like "explosions", "monster", "original sin" ... are frequently returned with after all this a conclusion among others: Ellroy is a great author, "full stop". Not an author of crime fiction, not because it's so good that it exceeds the thriller. Yes, yes. A good thriller, it's more a thriller (pronounced with a sweeping gesture of the hand), it is literature (Of course you will add the capital L). Moreover, it seems qu'Ellroy himself now says, the thriller is over, past.
Still, the few minutes devoted to the topic (violence and urban geography) would have deserved a real development. How this Ellroy Los Angeles in his novels, how his life revolves around Los Angeles, where her mother was killed, how the city rewards speed and trunk and how it is easy to get rid a corpse ... Reading an excerpt from Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett nevertheless allowed to enter parallel with the undeniable writing Ellroy. We have learned one thing. That hardly compensates for the fact of being told for the nth time a genre novel, (thriller, SF) sha these great reviews, "beyond" gender "is" that the kind. The same people who sometimes have to tell you that bridling "the detective story has acquired its letters of nobility."
All in all there were about 15 minutes more interesting 1 hour 30 minutes of "conference" where the biographical impulse James Ellroy (who wrote the author to not die / go mad / become a killer as if he did not also have been like, hard rock singer ?) Were repeated several times like a bad broken record complacent. It's a bit sad ... We would have liked to hear about the link between De Lillo Libra and Underworld USA Ellroy, for example. Real surprises. But perhaps the program was not intended to "fans of thrillers" ...
Next session Wednesday, January 12 at 18.30, still with François Angelier and Jean-Yves Bochet that evoke Ledesma, David Peace and Ken Bruen. For us, it will be towards the Melting Potes to stream pictures seen by literary and Pouy Mizio (26 bd de la Prairie au Duc at 19h).
Course Title: James Ellroy : mythical figure of noir Epic - The violence is it related to the geography of cities?
You should know that the University was able to pop around to many people. Indeed, the Lieu Unique subscribers may attend for free at these courses, which would otherwise cost you 3 euros. Thus, a sociological examination of the public lets see a dominant female, who leans toward the fifties and social class undoubtedly higher. The program, it is often rich and supported by interesting speakers (remember a fascinating discussion with Tanguy Viel).
Yesterday evening from the introduction of doubt settled. We not note the sentences verbatim as it will be satisfied with the general idea. Know then that the detective is often poor, simple application of a recipe destined for "fans of thrillers" vaguely presented as arrears. Either. Perhaps to reassure his audience on its quality drive Angelier quote Genet and Artaud, Céline. Real literature, whatever. We are the first to say that there are sacred bad novels in the thriller, but say, there-there more than this noble white literature?
After we have held mythology James Ellroy (alcohol, the death of his mother, not really racist provocateur) they also often referred to as "character", our two sidekicks - a real show as a duo - the writings discussed the vision of an America by the thugs rather than its stars (Kennedy, Luther King Hoover ...) and the style Ellroy, of course. Terms like "explosions", "monster", "original sin" ... are frequently returned with after all this a conclusion among others: Ellroy is a great author, "full stop". Not an author of crime fiction, not because it's so good that it exceeds the thriller. Yes, yes. A good thriller, it's more a thriller (pronounced with a sweeping gesture of the hand), it is literature (Of course you will add the capital L). Moreover, it seems qu'Ellroy himself now says, the thriller is over, past.
Still, the few minutes devoted to the topic (violence and urban geography) would have deserved a real development. How this Ellroy Los Angeles in his novels, how his life revolves around Los Angeles, where her mother was killed, how the city rewards speed and trunk and how it is easy to get rid a corpse ... Reading an excerpt from Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett nevertheless allowed to enter parallel with the undeniable writing Ellroy. We have learned one thing. That hardly compensates for the fact of being told for the nth time a genre novel, (thriller, SF) sha these great reviews, "beyond" gender "is" that the kind. The same people who sometimes have to tell you that bridling "the detective story has acquired its letters of nobility."
All in all there were about 15 minutes more interesting 1 hour 30 minutes of "conference" where the biographical impulse James Ellroy (who wrote the author to not die / go mad / become a killer as if he did not also have been like, hard rock singer ?) Were repeated several times like a bad broken record complacent. It's a bit sad ... We would have liked to hear about the link between De Lillo Libra and Underworld USA Ellroy, for example. Real surprises. But perhaps the program was not intended to "fans of thrillers" ...
Next session Wednesday, January 12 at 18.30, still with François Angelier and Jean-Yves Bochet that evoke Ledesma, David Peace and Ken Bruen. For us, it will be towards the Melting Potes to stream pictures seen by literary and Pouy Mizio (26 bd de la Prairie au Duc at 19h).
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