In a message dated 6/29/07 2:25:33 PM,
vhend1234@aol.com writes:
>
> Impressive editorial. I'm sitting here ticking off
one book after another
> in
> my head trying to think if I committed any of
the distasteful new features
> you mention! Pornographic maybe, but I think
someone else brought that up.
> However, my point is that people write what they
want and other people
> apply
> the names. When Miami Purity came out in '95, I
never realized I was going
> to be classified as noir. When I heard the word, I
figured it was somehow a
> "literary" type crime, because the French word gave
it some prestige. I
> really
> didn't know anything about noir in writing at
all, other than reading
> Cain's
> novels. When I found out that's what I had
written, I figured I'd better
> find
> out what it was. I had already written Iguana
Love, at that point, and it
> turned out to be noir too. Then I wrote
Voluntary Madness, which I thought
> was
> a love story, but it wasn't. It was crime or
noir or whatever. So now I
> just
> call myself a crime writer or noir writer
since everyone else is doing it.
> The author has no control over the
classification.
>
more evidence in favor of the argument that noir has in fact
become a point of view or philosophical bent rather than
remained a set of stylistic characteristics
John Lau
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