Mario Taboada 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?
************** I read a great early noir a couple months ago.
This nice guy (I mean, he's so nice even the damn animals
like him)... well this whore decides she wants him and she
gives him a little bit of the wild thing and pretty soon
she's got her hooks sunk in him. Well anyway, she's got mob
connections (no surprise there, eh?) and she introduces him
to mobster A who wants to wipe out mobster B. Well, Nature
Boy and Mobster A get to be good buddies and Mobster A cooks
up a plan to off Mobster B. (Spoiler coming!) Needless to
say, Nature Boy gets killed in the ultra-violent
encounter.
Mobster B, distraught over getting his friend wasted,
wanders the streets as a bum, a broken man.
Now is that noir or what? I can't remember the author's name.
The title is GILGAMESH.
miker
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