· NOIR. by Robert Coover ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 8, A detective seeks the body of his murdered client in this absurdist take on the hard-boiled detective novel. Septuagenarian postmodernist Coover (A Child Again, , etc.) presents his story in first-person perspective, and although he never reveals the main character’s middle name, readers of Raymond Chandler can . · Noir. With impeccable skill, Robert Coover, one of America's pioneering postmodernists, has turned the classic detective story inside-out. Here Coover is at the top of his form; and Noir is a true page-turner--wry, absurd, and desolate. You are Philip M. Noir, Private Investigator/5. Noir. by Robert Coover. Robert Coover is a literary subversive, ready to topple the old system, its. methodologies, its assumptions, and its. technologies. Even his own vocation. as a writer of novels can. end up in Coover’s.
NOIR. by Robert Coover ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 8, A detective seeks the body of his murdered client in this absurdist take on the hard-boiled detective novel. Septuagenarian postmodernist Coover (A Child Again, , etc.) presents his story in first-person perspective, and although he never reveals the main character's middle name. Noir — Robert Coover The author's try at writing good old hard-boiled detective fiction. Passable; fun; and just a little "Coover" in there to remind you it isn't Dasheill Hammett. The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov (+) The Sportswriter — Richard Ford I am immediately reminded of Updike but the writing is not as good. Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, ) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.
With impeccable skill, Robert Coover, one of America's pioneering postmodernists, has turned the classic detective story inside-out. Here Coover is at the top of his form; and Noir is a true page-turner - wry, absurd, and desolate. You are Philip M. Noir, Private Investigator. You will find the pages of “Noir” spellbound by Coover’s signature mordant wit and claustrophobic worldview. Elsewhere you may have come across the much repeated statement by NY Times book critic Michiko Kakutani: “Of all the post-modernist writers, Robert Coover is probably the funniest and most malicious.”. Robert Coover's Noir resonates with the familiar elements of these films. Every page—indeed almost every paragraph—draws on one or more cinematic cliché. Sometimes the cliché is turned into a joke. In other instances, it is simply piled on top of other hackneyed elements. The end result is a narrative that continually.
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