Jack wrote:
"One thing that bothers me about the newer 'noir' is that
most don't have plots. They just have a series events that
eventually ends to no particular conclusion, other than,
perhaps: wow that was violent, and there were some good
laughs all the way."
The following is one of the first messages I posted to this
list
(6/8/98, wow, it's been that long?). I asked about "Deco
Noir":
"In 'Box 9,' Jack O'Connell writes:
"'Ephraim is the Anglophile. Ike, surprisingly, likes his
book crimes hard-boiled and urban. Neither one of them knows
what to make of the new wave of deco noir books from France
where there is no hero, little plot, and just page after page
of random, bizarre violence.
"'Do these books really exist or is this just O'Connell
joking about post-structuralism and Robbe-Grillet's "theory
of the new novel"? If they exist, have any been translated
into English? Can anyone help me?'"
O'Connell later confirmed that it was just a joke on his
part. It now seems that he had predictive powers.
Can't wait for his next book, by the way.
Mark
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