Re: RARA-AVIS: Westlake on Noir and Hard-Boiled

From: John Armstrong (pachuco@telus.net)
Date: 06 Jan 2009

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    Just thought I'd throw it out as the distinction has been argued many times here, and it seemed like Westlake deserved to get his kick at the can, even posthumously

    JAA

    sonny wrote:
    >
    > we could always go at it one more time in honor of westlake;
    > or accept that noir doesn't exist anymore.
    >
    > --- On Tue, 1/6/09, BaxDeal@aol.com <mailto:BaxDeal%40aol.com>
    > <BaxDeal@aol.com <mailto:BaxDeal%40aol.com>> wrote:
    >
    > > From: BaxDeal@aol.com <mailto:BaxDeal%40aol.com> <BaxDeal@aol.com
    > <mailto:BaxDeal%40aol.com>>
    > > Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Westlake on Noir and Hard-Boiled
    > > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com <mailto:rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>
    > > Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 6:27 PM
    > > In a message dated 1/6/09 12:24:05 PM, pachuco@telus.net
    > <mailto:pachuco%40telus.net>
    > > writes:
    > >
    > >
    > > > *PK:* Your Parker novels were once called
    > > “hard-boiled”, but are now
    > > > sometimes called “noir”. Do these two terms mean
    > > the same, in your view?
    > > > Are they terms you’d use?
    > > >
    > > > *DW:* I think hard-boiled and noir are both a little
    > > past their sell-by
    > > > date, and both really refer to the post-war 40s.
    > > Hard-boiled is what the
    > > > vets brought back with them, and noir is the world
    > > they found when they
    > > > got home. I think hard-boiled is still possible, but
    > > noir today is
    > > > another word for artsy.
    > > >
    > >
    > > you new here?
    > >
    > > John Lau

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