At B'con, there was a fabulous session on "21st Century Noir"
chaired by Charles Ardai, and featuring Sean Doolittle, Simon
Kernick, Jason Starr, and Ken Bruen. It was really great. At
one point, in talking about the origins of noir, Charles
theorized that it goes back at least to Shakespeare, with
King Lear, and possibly other Shakespearean works. Later, I
suggested to Charles that Oedipus Rex was pretty noirish, and
he made a great comment, suggesting that the Greeks felt
their universe was determined by the gods, and when the
literature suggests that the gods were acting completely
arbitrarily or unjustly, as in Oedipus Rex, it created a noir
universe. I would guess that there are parallels like the
story of Job in Biblical literature, suggesting a pretty
unjust God, and a noirish world.
Best, Bruce
Bruce Makous Author, Riding the Brand
www.brucemakous.com
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