I think you could argue that Lolita is the greatest noir
novel of all time. Both the plot and the writing style are
perfect. Humbert is the ultimate Cain anti-hero. Yes, I'd say
you're right.
Patrick King
--- Juri Nummelin <
juri.nummelin@pp.inet.fi> wrote:
> There sure are Lolita copies in the fifties
and
> sixties
> paperbacks. I don't know if it has any intention
to
> be so, but
> Jonathan Craig's SO YOUNG, SO WICKED (GM 1957) is
a
> spin on the
> Lolita theme: the 15-year old nymphette seduces
the
> hired gun so
> that he won't kill her. (Does it actually
precede
> Nabokov's book?
> Was that from 1959? So, maybe Nabokov read some
of
> the earlier
> nymphette noirs?)
>
> I think the case could be made that Nabokov's
book
> is noir. It's
> about a man whose behaviour dooms him from
the
> beginning. And
> there's a crime, even a murder in it.
>
> Juri
> http://pulpetti.blogspot.com
>
>
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