Title: Fatale - Jean-Patrick Manchette - book
Summary :
"Whichever way you turn," Manchette writes, "there is a long hill to climb to get out of Bléville." Thus, in Fatale as in his other books, there are sentences that carry strange metaphorical ambiguities. There is also one where we are not sure whether it ironically evokes the bloody clean-up undertaken by Aimée or the moral order necessary for harmony in Bléville. This sentence, a leitmotif inscribed on an automatic scale, a telephone terminal, or a municipal wastebasket, consists of a simple injunction: KEEP YOUR CITY CLEAN!" Jean Échenoz.
