Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: On Noir

From: Kerry J. Schooley ( gsp.schoo@murderoutthere.com)
Date: 29 Sep 2005


Sorry Dave:

Thought it was you who said noir was little more than working-class tragedy. It was Marc Seals quoting Dennis Lehane. You argued for the opposition. I've got to stop trying to correspond when I only dip into the ongoing conversation.

Now you know why I think the world is doomed. My world at least.

best, Kerry

At 09:41 PM 29/09/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>!)
> >
> > But you're not looking for noir in these stories Dave. By your
>definition,
> > you're looking for tragedy in dungarees. If you don't accept noir as
>a
> > genre distinct from tragedy, you can't expect to recognize it when
>you come
> > across it.
> >
>
>I don't get your point, Kerry - I thought in my posts I was making a
>fairly explicit distinction between tragedy and noir?? Don't quite get
>the tragedy in dungarees reference either.
>
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