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> I should know soon, I just checked a bunch of his
"entertainments"
out of the library, I'm reading Orient Express right
now.
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> Jordan
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Oh, that's one of my favorite books! I'll be interested to
read your thoughts. My first instinct was that a lot of
Greene's spy stories qualify as noir, but "Orient Express"
probably doesn't. Then I remembered that it IS a spy story,
but there are so many other layers to the book that I didn't
think of it that way. I'm still not sure how I'd class it.
(Whereas I'd definitely call "Brighton Rock" a noir).
Actually, a lot of Greene's more "serious" novels,
like "Heart of the Matter" and "Power and the Glory," have a
noir feeling about them, and they also have violence and
crime, even if they aren't "crime novels."
I now wonder if the heavy religious overtone to these does
something to take them out of the noir category. I've never
thought about whether noir and religion are mutually
exclusive, but off the top of my head, I can't think of a
noir story with a heavy emphasis on the existence of God. (As
opposed to having corrupt clergymen as characters).
Thoughts?
-Carrie
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