Lawrence Coates wrote:
I recently read Pop. 1280, following the discussions of the
group, and I'm wondering if someone can help me with the
ending. I was all ready to accept the main character, Nick
Corey, as a kind of minor demon (in the same vein as the
devil who reveals himself to the middle Karamazov brother).
Hence the name Nick. But then he seems to claim he is Jesus.
Or Judas. Or both. Any ideas?
**************** Nick Corey sees himself as a Christ-figure,
or maybe as Christ himself in the Second Coming. I don't
think that Thompson is portraying him as such.
Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov might be noir. I haven't read
it. I've read Crime and Punishment and Notes from the
Underground and I thought both of them were noirish. Other
people have described the noirish characteristics of
Dostoevsky's writing, including Paul Duncan in Noir Fiction
and Charles Willeford in an essay on the immobilized
man.
miker
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