This is not the world of loveable rogues

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I just thought that crime novels were crap, you know like Colin Dexter, like crossword puzzles, that I found quite pompous and suddenly there was this book . . . the first thing that hit me was it was so compassionate for this woman who was killed. You know, they’re not normally like that, and such a brilliant description of the fucking bleakness of London and such a strong voice, I was amazed and had had loads of weird nightmares.  And I just never met such a brilliant person before. Derek Raymond. He was so fantastic. So intelligent and, for a man in his sixties, so young. Such an enquiring mind. Raged up . . . almost like Johnny Rotten, actually, that rage that fuelled him and the way articulated it. Almost exactly. They almost used the same phrase, the mistreatment of peoples, what made them fucking angry.  -C. Unsworth

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Noir crime fiction is seen by some as a form of populist agitprop for existentialism. While Camus and Sartre took over the left bank, it was the Noir writers who were on sale in every news-agent. It is only natural to read Raymond’s book as a continuation of this de facto intellectual alliance, but I would argue that Raymond’s take on existentialism is almost diametrically opposed to that of Sartre, Camus, Kafka or Marcel.-Ruthless Culture

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