rene said:
> I can't say I agree with roping in Dostoeyevsky
& Conrad as noir authors
> although I see his point & the influence on
& thematic similarities to,
> noir authors is undeniable - & seeing how noir
is a "genre" that was
> basically invented by critics & readers long
after many of the authors
> were already gone, who can say, and prove, that he's
wrong?
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i agree, rene. whether those other authors are noir primarily
depends on how you define noir. if you go for the
all-encompassing definition of it being simply a portrayal of
the world as being a big bad ugly place filled with mean
nasty people, then i think dostoyevsky and conrad fit in.
heck, for that matter we could throw in a decent percentage
of shakespeare, couldn't we? and what about dante? "abandon
hope all ye who enter" sounds sorta noirish to me.
i just recently reread conrad's _heart of darkness_, and it
is certainly a dark portrayal of the human condition. i
noticed from the many "rribic" lists on amazon that you've
read it. _heart of darkness_ seems to me like _the killer
inside me_ runs for election, and wins. in its own way, it is
a much scarier book that thompson's.
miker
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