William Ahearn wrote in response to my recommendation of
Faulkner's Sanctuary:
I'll check it out. Thanks.
************* Without giving too much away, there is a
section where a few people are just walking around inside an
old house, but it struck me as really ominous and
threatening. When I pulled away from the book long enough to
think about it, I had to laugh.
Faulkner is purposely vague sometimes in his writing, and
sometimes it works and sometimes it just pisses me off. My
recommendation is when you come to anything obscure, forge
right on. I think that's the way it's meant to be read, and
it comes together better that way.
As far as defining noir, I might split hairs on particular
works, but I'm right with you on big picture. Although the
femme fatale is a long-standing noir feature, even they don't
always appear. There's none in Thieves Like Us, and I'd say
it's solidly within the noir fiction category.
miker
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