Would anyone who's read it consider it "hard-boiled"
or "noir"? This, to me, might blow the top off
of our notions of what hard-boiled is. Here you
have a group of monks without fedoras or cigars
or snappy one-liners or fog, but yet, at least
in the movie, the Abbot Connery plays is as hard-boiled
as Marlowe or Spade. He questions church fathers
and other high-ups in the Catholic monastic set
in a hard-bitten search for answers. The mood
was definitely "noir" in my opinion and Eco
is definitely familiar with post-war American
detective fiction. What say you other hard-boiled
eggheads?
"1 June. Wrote nothing.
2 June. Wrote almost nothing."
--Franz Kafka, Diaries 1912
Rhino Benedetti
Angstified Geek
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