Burnett's criminal-as-protagonist LITTLE CAESAR (1929) could
be called noir, and if Caldwell's THE BASTARD (1929) and
Wolfson's BODIES ARE DUST (1931) aren't noir, I'll eat my
underwear.
Al
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From: Dave Zeltserman
To:
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Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Early Noir
>
> Granted. But I'm drawing the line (for me) at
1932.
> That's when the genre -- as genre --
began.
> >
Rex Stout's "How Like a God" was published in
1929 and is classic noir--
one of the best novels of the genre, and contains
a level craziness and
sexual obsession and depravity that you wouldn't
think of from Stout.
--Dave Z.
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