Re: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled and Noir

From: Bill Crider ( bcrider@houston.rr.com)
Date: 14 Dec 2003


Nick writes, "I don't think Miker's saying that the pessimistic determinism of the American Naturalists is noir, but that the pessimistic determinism of the American Naturalists (that's kind of fun to type) is a literary antecedent to noir."

I think that's what miker's saying, too. McTeague (from the novel of the same name) and Clyde Griffiths (from An American Tragedy) are screwed from the beginning. I wouldn't call either novel noir, but the resemblance is there.

Bill Crider

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