1997

1997 CE.

1997 is the publication year for the editions below.

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Crime Novels American Noir of the 1950s

Charles Willeford, Chester Himes, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, Patricia Highsmith
Contemporary American Crime Noir

Here we are moving away from looming dread of war and toward the disillusionment of what was waiting for those that returned from overseas.

Crime Novels of the 1930s and 1940s

Cornell Woolrich, Edward Anderson, Horace McCoy, James M. Cain, Kenneth Fearing, William Lindsay Gresham
Interwar Contemporary American Crime Noir

For July, I’m going to take a deep dive into American crime noir novels from the 1930s to 1960s, give them a bit of context, and maybe mention a film or two along the way.

The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie

Ágota Kristóf
Contemporary Hungarian-Swiss Literature

All three novels revolve around two brothers, Claus and Lucas. They are twins. Perfect reflections of one another. In The Notebook, they are abandoned at their grandmother’s during a brutal war (presumably World War II) in their country (presumably in Europe) and, using a notebook, they practice hardening themselves against outside threats and internal ones as well.