Mario Taboada wrote: Has Kafka's influence been acknowledged?
Dostoevsky's? On the other hand, if we broaden the search,
noir is just a type of story and hardboiled is a type of
character and they are found everywhere...
Anyone want to put of new definitions?
************** Paul Duncan in his excellent little NOIR
FICTION and Willeford both acknowledge Dostoevsky's NOTES
FROM THE UNDERGROUND, from Paul as a noir precursor, and from
Charles as an originator of his "immobilized man," a type of
noir protagonist.
miker
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