On 29 May 2000, Mario Taboada wrote:
: 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.
Didn't it go the other way, too? Didn't Camus say he'd been
influenced by a Serie Noir writer? I can't remember where I
read this.
Willeford was well up on his existentialists, and I bet the
others were too.
Bill
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