Colin wrote:
> Is HB so rooted in US culture that it looses
something in translation?
Personally I don't think so, but others may wish to
differ.
>
Like I said, I haven't read a huge amount of UK noir but GET
CARTER, both movie & novel, are ample proof that
hardboiled does not have to be an American idiom. I believe
that hardboiled (& noir) can be done anywhere, & set
anywhere, in the modern world & done successfully also.
It would undoubtedly have a different flavour to American hb
but if a writer is good enough & has a feel for the
subject matter and the genre then he or she will write good
hardboiled fiction, in any language set anywhere. Whether it
would translate well into English from another language would
be a different matter, no doubt.
Rene
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