Thanks for more titles and authors, Max. I don't know if
everybody makes the same distinctions between hardboiled and
noir, but your definition makes sense. The characters who
find trouble through their own error or psychological problem
are basically the literary type. Literary writing focuses
more on character than plot, and everything has to come
through character, so you're probably seeing the difference
between the writers reared on Aristotle's principles of
tragic flaw, recognition, and reversal, versus those who grew
up reading crime and started doing what they loved. I've
always tried to put both together to achieve depth without
boredom. I'm not saying that literary fiction is boring, just
that I don't trust myself to be able to write something
interesting that doesn't contain the high drama of crime.
Vicki
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