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RARA-AVIS: Working towards a definition of sorts
Many thanks to all of you who responded to my question on locale. I can see
I'm going to be keeping the special order desk at my local Border's busy.
Someone listed The Postman Always Rings Twice as an example of a hardboiled
novel in a nonurban setting. My first reaction was to mentally kick myself
for not thinking of Postman myself. My second reaction was to realize that
the reason I hadn't thought of it was that I don't consider Postman to be
Hardboiled. Noir, certainly -- but not Hardboiled.
This got me thinking along the lines that Hardboiled is a subgenre of Noir.
Then it occurred to me that I'd always before thought of Hardboiled as a
subgenre of Mystery. I know from posts from other RARA-AVIS subscribers that
I'm not alone in thinking that.
So, this leaves me with this thought: Hardboiled is the place where Noir and
Mystery overlap.
What do the rest of you think? (I figure this idea will be rapidly shot
down, but I also figure I'll learn a lot from _why_ I'm wrong here.)
Anny
AnnyMiddon@aol.com
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