Noir. More than just hard-boiled detectives, Noir embodies a mood and a worldview that is pessimistic and bleak. Some characteristics: gritty urban settings( but not always), morally compromised protagonists, dark mysteries, and a harsh, dim outlook on human nature.. The possibility of doom at the hands of a random and indifferent Fate is omnipresent . Hope, if there is any, is often elusive and transitory. Noir developed out of the uncertainty of the Great Depression, The WWII years, and the post-war anxiety of the 40s and 50s. These 90+ novels and story collections represent the best of the classic Roman Noir as a distinct sub genre of crime fiction.
Noir. First You Dream, then You Die.
