Greene may not be hardboiled, but he wrote some great noir
works, such as The Third Man, the story The Basement Room,
and his masterpiece (in my opinion), Our Man in Havana. The
Conrad tradition is just as respectable as the
Twain-Hemingway-Hammett tradition.
Perhaps he isn't considered part of the hardboiled crowd
because he wrote psychological novels and because so many of
his characters are such ordinary people, but I propose that
he be grandfathered into raravian matter, as we grandgaiaed
Patricia Highsmith and grandhipstered Hubert Selby Jr...
There's nothing to gain by being restrictive with
definitions.
One point is that British toughness is not expressed at all
in the same way as American toughness. The same goes for
humo(u)r. I am reminded of this every time I read the
remarkable Bill James.
Best regards,
MrT
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