i think you just said that obama is noir. actually, he is mulâtre.
--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Steve Novak <Cinefrog@comcast.net> wrote:
> From: Steve Novak <Cinefrog@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS:1,00 BEST CRIME NOVELS
> To: "RARA-AVIS" <rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 6:34 PM
> If your comment on Auster (read below) is Œnot a
> judgement¹, then, as some
> French say, Obama is not black...
>
> The simple idea that Auster should not be included in
> discussions on any
> crime writing, or noir, or whatever related to all the
> topics touched upon
> in Rara, is highly symptomatic of the absurd ghetto into
> which he (Auster)
> has been kept by a large part of the critique here in the
> US, and especially
> the Crime Stories critics....and mrt is just repeating here
> their usual
> credo: ³More technique than substance²...please...!!...is
> that what one
> should call a Œclassificatory comment¹...(what are those
> by the way, where
> do they start and where do they end being
> Œclassificatory¹...)...
>
> Nothing else to add here since this terrain has been
> covered ample times in
> Rara in the past ten years and nothing evolves on that
> front...
>
> Better subject: Thanks a million to Duane for the article
> on Cody¹s demise
> and I hope that nothing of such fate will occur to the
> great store in
> Portland (Powell¹s)
>
> Montois
>
> On 1/19/09 4:38 PM, "jacquesdebierue"
> <jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> > Steve Novak <Cinefrog@...> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Do we detect a litlle bias against Auster
> there...or are we about to
> >> > re-ignate the ŒAuster-is-noir¹
> controversy...?
> >> >
> >> > ...but..²on n¹est jamais prophète en son
> pays²...of course...and the
> > fact
> >> > that Auster is quoted in a list in the
> Guardian is therefore logical...
> >> >
> >> > ????
> >
> > It was not a judgment on Auster but merely a
> classificatory comment. I
> > would never include him in such a list. He's a
> technical writer, a
> > fluent writer, but not really a storyteller like crime
> literature
> > pros. This is not the place to discuss his work, but I
> do think he is
> > overrated by the critics. More technique than
> substance.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > mrt
>
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