"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, "Tropic of Capricorn" by Henry
Miller, "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck although
there are murders and other crimes in that one, it's not
really 'about' the crimes. To be truly 'noir' though, I think
the character has to be driven to positively desperate acts
in order to achieve a dream the reader can see clearly he can
never achieve due to his character flaws. Surely,
Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" is the template for all
the noir novels that came after it.
Patrick King
--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This was touched on earlier. Noir almost
always
> involves crime. Can you name any novels that
you
> consider to be noir that do not involve
crime?
>
> Thank you, miker
>
>
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