Tanguy Viel is a French crime writer whose novels contain numerous cinematographic references, particularly to Hitchcock and Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Sleuth. In his novels The Absolute Perfection of Crime and Beyond Suspicion, Viel plays with the established codes of noir crime fiction and, in La Disparition de Jim Sullivan, those of the American novel.
Isabelle Vanderschelden, Senior French Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, will host this talk and Q&A with Viel. Together, they will discuss his inspirations from the English-speaking world and his influences from cinema.
This talk will be in French with an English translation available. It will be followed by a screening of Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes. Tickets for the film are available separately.
Programmed in collaboration with the Alliance française de Manchester, the official centre for French language and culture.