At 07:25 PM 15/08/2007, you wrote:
>Kerry J. Schooley wrote:
>
>Where's the prerequisite crime?
>
>**********
>Who said there had to be a crime? It wasn't
me.
I wasn't addressing you directly. The suggestion that hard
boil and noir are categories of crime writing isn't new to
this list, or mine alone. Pretty much every book we've
discussed has had a crime close to the centre of the
narrative.
If I understand you correctly, you say noir is focused more
on morality than criminality? There's a lot of interplay
between the two, of course, but they aren't the same thing
and the differences define the discussion.
It's an arbitrary categorization, I know, but that's what
categories are, allowing us to talk apples or oranges,
instead of fruit.
>Nevertheless, I don't see Fleming's Bond series
as
>noir.
No, I got that. I was thinking of the genre, with Le Carré ©n
mind, I think. A lot of killing and betrayal going on, but
given that the characters act with their governments'
permission, is it noir?
Best, Kerry
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