Mario Taboada wrote:
>
> <<"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*.
Stuart Gilbert's translation of THE STRANGER opens: "Mother
died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure. The
telegram from the Home says: YOUR MOTHER PASSED AWAY. FUNERAL
TOMORROW. DEEP SYMPATHY. Which leaves the matter doubtful; it
could have been yesterday."
Camus publicly acknowledged James M. Cain as a major
influence on the novel. Noir goes round and round.
BobT
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