Richard Moore wrote:
I wish Paul Duncan was still on this list. Duncan, author of
NOIR FICTION...
*************** Me too! His NOIR FICTION is my bible on,
er... noir fiction. After the initial definitive section, his
thin book turns into a noir tour that is nothing short of
spectacular. I've got a list of books from his Duncan
believed that the psychological make-up of the protagonist
was a key ingredient of noir. He claimed that many tough
hardboiled novels, like Chandler and Hammett, did not qualify
as noir because the protagonists were too much in control.
The noir protagonist, he said, did not teeter on the edge of
the abyss, but instead was drowning in it.
miker
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