To answer your question Kerry, no, I didn't really intend the
Manifesto as political call to arms. At least not in the
sense that it calls for the embracing of a particular
political ideology.
That said, I do think I agree with the notion -- which both
you and Steve seem to be expressing, though in different
terms--that almost every story expresses a social and
political value system, even if it pretends otherwise, or
does so at some metalevel, unconscious to its creators.
I guess what I find intriguing about Manchette and some of
the other writers I mention in "Noir Manifesto" is the way
they use and/or abuse genre conventions to crash through the
social and literary codes that predetermine meaning--and free
us, however briefly, from those perceptions.
And, as Mark mentions, they are great reads.
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