In reply to your message of 2/23/00 1:00 AM
>George Tuttle at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/7522/
credits Barry
>Gifford using the term in the Introduction to Jim
Thomson's A Hell of a
>Woman in the 1984 Black Lizard reprint. But, the
French had been using the
>term "roman noir" for quite some time before. There
are subtle differences
>between the two.
This intro was apparently used for all Black Lizard's
Thompson reprints. The following excerpt is the only mention
of noir.
"The French seem to appreciate best Thompson's brand of
terror.
_Roman_noir_, literally "black novel," is a term reserved
especially for novelists such as Thompson, Cornell Woolrich
and David Goodis. Only Thompson, however, fulfills the French
notion of both _noir_ and
_maudit_, the accursed and self-destructive. It is an unholy
picture that Thompson presents."
Regards, Kate Derie Creator of the ClueLass HomePage, http://www.cluelass.com
Editor of the Deadly Directory, http://www.deadlyserious.com
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