mm, I don't think it is that Meursault is naughty
- it is that he, unlike Raskolnikov or Pinkie Brown or even
Sheriff Lou Ford doesn't seem capable of registering that
there is such a thing as 'naughty' - he's sort of the
ultimate transgressor because he doesn't seem to recognize
that he's transgressing, or that there are meaningful lines
that one would transgress. Beyond good and evil, where
anything is permitted. Sartre's nauseating freedom.
He winds up in prison, and seems just fine with
that, which is - it its way - more horrifying and creepy than
your typical damned noir sinner. (Or not).
--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> David Wright wrote:
>
> And the ultimate anti-christian noir?
Most
> noir
> anti-heroes defy morality. Meursault is
simply
> beyond
> good & evil altogether.
>
> ****************
> Camus was inspired by James Cain, wasn't
he?
> And I'm
> not sure that a naughty hero makes the
noir
> anti-Christian. What happens to them in
the
> end?
>
> And if you look at the big heroes of the
Old
> Testament, they almost all had some
serious
> skeletons
> in the closet.
>
> miker
>
>
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