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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, mburch5717@... wrote:
>
> I think that MacBeth is a better candidate for best
Shakespearean noir:
> plenty of crimes, an atmosphere of inescapable doom
and one of the nastiest femme
> fatales in the business.
>
> But seriously folks it seems to me we are making the
term noir so elastic
> that it really doesn't have any meaning.
Doestoevski, Kerouac, Steinbeck, Henry
> Miller (?!) are supposed to be noir or proto-noir
authors? Why not throw in A.
> A. Milne, Arthur Miller and Nabokov for good
measure?
>
Just let Wanda Tinasky or the ghost of Jim Thompson do a
rewrite on Lolita and you have an ultranoirissimo product. In
fact, hasn't the Lolita plot been noired already by one of
the industrious paperback guys? It is ringing a bell, but
dimly.
Best,
MrT
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