Etienne Borgers wrote:
> Everything in a society is politics and politics is
everywhere.
especially
> in the HB/Noir lit.
> Because of its constant fight against corrupted
power, distorted justice,
> death and murder admitted as a daily fact, the best
of this lit is
politics
> by essence.
> It often carries the implicit denial of the
auto-justification of power
> (under any form) by its existence ( which for the
holders is something
> that should be admitted as a natural law, that
nobody could contest,
> against which nobody could be allowed to fight);
this stand is pure
politics.
************** I disagree with your comment about the denial
of auto-justification of power. In hardboiled detective
literature, the exact opposite is the normal state of
affairs. The detective's illegal activities are justified by
the end result.
The dominant political theme in hardboiled literature is that
fascism defeats anarchy.
miker
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