At 03:31 AM 02/02/2007 +0000, Richard Moore wrote:
>To my personal sense of what is Noir and what is not,
the more the
>humor, the more I would be likely to exclude it. This
doesn't mean
>that I would not enjoy the buffonery of some novels
by Erskine
>Caldwell or John Faulkner. I just wouldn't call them
Noir. I may be
>advantaged or disadvantaged by growing up in rural
Georgia and
>knowing people very like the characters. "Noir" to me
continues to
>carry with it the "black" of the definition and
humor, even black
>humor, erodes and removes that black edge.
I've always viewed humour as a short-term survival approach.
In that sense, it doesn't interfere with my personal
definition of noir as non-transcendent literature.
Best, Kerry
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