If we're going to go back in literary history, the story of
Jason and Medea is as noir as they come. Guy guided by
ambition, led astray by duplicitous woman, murders her
brother to further his career, his plan fails, wants to drop
the old woman for a younger one (and a throne), she kills
their son, then Jason commits suicide. Medea, the dame in
question, goes somewhere else.
If you were to give this to Gil Brewer, a quintessential
noirist, he would return with a fat manuscript (two or three
Gold Medals, at least, if not a whole "Argonaut"
series).
We need to refine the concept: are we talking about noir as
style (which includes atmosphere) or about a typology of
characters and situations?
Best,
MrT
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