E.Borgers wrote:
>I 'm personally
>convinced that Chandler is noir and did noir in part
of his writing, but
>he did not know it....
>....
>I am even convinced that noir is a larger territory,
including the
>hard-boiled works and authors. But, hey, on this list
it's something
>that will quickly lead me to be dumped in the R-A
bonfire for heretics
I'll join you on that pyre. The first book that I read in the
noir/HB genre was Chandler's THE BIG SLEEP, and it still
feels to me like a great example of a particular noir style,
if you look past some surface elements like the wisecracking
dialogue. By comparison, the Hawks movie version feels
completely un-noir to me, despite the fact that it's usually
called film noir.
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