Miker,
Re your questions below:
1. Does the hardboiled fiction genre have some common
meaning/message? If yes, what is it?
No.
2. Does the noir fiction genre have some common
meaning/message? If yes, what is it?
No.
3. What pre-Hammett/ Daly literature led up to the hardboiled
genre?
Westerns and mysteries.
4. Do you identify the beginning of the noir fiction genre
with a particular novel or story? If yes, what and why?
Either "Death Sits in the Dentist's Chair" by Cornell
Woolrich because it's the first crime story by Cornell
Woolrich, or THIS MAN IS DANGEROUS by Peter Cheyney, because
it was the first book published under the Serie Noire
logo.
5. Do you identify the beginning of the hardboiled fiction
genre with a particular novel or story? If yes, what and
why?
"Three-Gun Terry" by Carroll John Daly because it's the first
hard-boiled PI story.
6. What themes do you often find in the hardboiled genre?
Does the commonality suggest some special significance? If
yes, what?
Toughness and a colloquial mode of expression. Yes. That
toughness and a colloquial mode of expression are what define
the hard-boiled style.
7. What themes do you often find in noir fiction? Does the
commonality suggest some special significance? If yes,
what?
A dark and sinister atmosphere. Yes. That a dark and sinister
atmosphere is what defines noir in crime fiction.
8. If you don't think Michael Connelly is writing the best
damned hardboiled today, how long of a pry bar would it take
to get your head out of your ass?
I'M writing the best damed hard-boiled today. I just can' get
a publisher to agree.
And now that I've given the definitive answers to all your
questions, there's no need to devote an entire month to
them.
JIM DOHERTY
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