Mario wrote:
But noir, if you make the definition broad enough, could go
back a long ways and include the Greeks, some of Shakespeare,
Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka and who knows what else.
**************** Yup. All the way back to Gilgamesh, the very
first literary work. More recently in Gothic and even more
recently in American Naturalism. The only way to separate
noir fiction from the rest of this is through the artifice of
a time stamp. Without the contrived time requirement, there's
no way to eliminate Crane's Maggie from the noir fiction
tag.
miker
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