I believe the cinema noir folks were heavily influenced by
the existentialists like Camus and it seems that I read
somewhere that one of the reasons the French were (are?) so
infatuated with hardboiled fiction is because of its debt to
the French existentialists. Am I off track here? Jim
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Taboada" <
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Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Women Rewriting
> <<"Mother died yesterday. Or was it the day
before?" Something like
that.
> Great beginning for a noir novel.>>
>
> I think it *is* a noir novel... I wonder if Goodis,
Thompson and Willeford
were
> familiar with Camus. If not, they were mining some
of the same sad ore*.
>
> Regards
>
> mt
> * I claim a "first" for the awful "same sad
ore".
>
>
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