> 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...
You have my vote.
Rene
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