Mr. T wrote-
>
> Any definition of noir has to go back to the Greek
myths.
> Despair is old, as are the expressions of it. Can
one say
> that McCoy, Cain and Goodis created something
new?
> Something as large as a genre? I don't think so.
Has
> Kafka's influence been acknowledged?
Dostoevsky's?
Mr. T.-
You forgot to mention the unquestioned legacies of both Twain
and Hemingway in the home-grown school.
All the Best-
Brian Thornton
-- # Plain ASCII text only, please. Anything else won't show up. # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 23 Feb 2004 EST