Brian Thornton wrote:
That begs to the question: if MACBETH was noir, then what the
hall would you call HAMLET? After all, one of the working
definitions of noir is that your protagonist is "fucked on
page one, and things go downhill from there."
************ Yup. Sounds good to me. And Greek tragedy. And
the oldest written story in the world, Gilgamesh. The themes
of noir run all the back to the beginning of literature.
Other than minor differences, there is no way to
differentiate noir from works that go back to when dirt was
young. If you are going for "dark and sinister" or "screwed,"
you're definitely into Gothic and a fair amount of medieval
stuff. I read Frankenstein a few weeks back. Definitely dark
and sinister. I'm just about finished with Le Morte D'Arthur.
With my only previous exposure to Arthur coming from The Once
and Future King, I never realized how dark the Arthurian
legend is.
Charles Willeford wrote that all great literature is
depressing.
miker
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