Moon In The Gutter Goodis

Hughes foundation contents chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 chapter 4 chapter 5 chapter 6 chapter 7 chapter 8 chapter 9 chapter 10 chapter 11 chapter 12 chapter 13 chapter 14 chapter 15 chapter 16 chapter 17 chronology note on the texts notes the moon.

Moon in the gutter goodis.

The moon in the gutter 1953 is one of david goodis s many tours of the down and out neighborhoods of his native city of philadelphia. Powered by justwatch the moon in the gutter is a sumptuous dazzlingly photographed melodrama that becomes alas relentlessly boring. The moon in the gutter offers a bleak yet lyrical vision of poverty and of what goodis sees as the loneliness of the human condition. It was entered into the 1983 cannes film festival.

Ultimately the film became a great success internationally winning four cesars. The moon in the gutter by david goodis. William kerrigan s pursuit of the riddle of his sister s death in an obscure alleyway provides the starting point for a tortuous journey into the darkness of all lost dreams. Five noir novels of the 1940s 50s is published with support from the geoffrey c.

A prolific writer of hardboiled crime goodis s success was modest he died in 1967. His next film la lune dans le caniveau the moon in the gutter was an. La lune dans le caniveau is a 1983 french drama film directed by jean jacques beineix. First published in 1953 the moon in the gutter was david goodis s 10th novel part of the loose trilogy including black friday and down there.

It is all style and no heart and the giveaway is that we never really care about the characters even though each one has a suitably tragic story. David goodis s the moon in the gutter comes close in its fashion to adhering to the aristotelian unities. Goodis works deserve a place in the library of america which chronicles the breadth and diversity of america and its people. It is a work of literature that gets beyond the categories of pulp or noir.

Here are links to the individual volumes in this collection for interested readers. The moon in the gutter takes place in philly on vernon street a neighborhood in terminal despair and goodis makes us feel it walking us through its crack brained shacks two hundred year old houses that are no better than dumps and the loneliest alley where the blood of william kerrigan s sister catherine has left a residual stain on the pavement.