Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Women Rewriting

From: William Denton ( buff@pobox.com)
Date: 29 May 2000


On 29 May 2000, Mario Taboada wrote:

: I think it *is* a noir novel... I wonder if Goodis, Thompson and
: Willeford were familiar with Camus. If not, they were mining some of
: the same sad ore.

Didn't it go the other way, too? Didn't Camus say he'd been influenced by a Serie Noir writer? I can't remember where I read this.

Willeford was well up on his existentialists, and I bet the others were too.

Bill

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