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Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective stories). Derived from the romantic tradition which emphasized the emotions of apprehension, awe, horror and terror, hardboiled fiction deviates from that tradition in the detective's cynical attitude towards those emotions. The attitude is conveyed through the detective's inner monologue describing to the audience what he is doing and feeling.
The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who witnesses daily the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920-1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that had become as corrupt as the organized crime itself. Rendered cynical by this cycle of violence, the detectives of hardboiled fiction are classic antiheroes. Notable hardboiled detectives include Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer, Sam Spade, Lew Archer, and The Continental Op.
Usage examples of "hardboiled".
He made his own commentary, as though he could shift personalities like shifting gears, choosing a hardboiled masculine frame of mind for the admiring next-to-nude girls at Bondi, a worried near-feminine attitude for the ski-jumpers - thoughts of pain on failure, bruises, broken bones.
Whether one defines pulp fiction as stories originating in the erstwhile magazines printed on pulp paper, or a tradition of storytelling whose roots lie in hardboiled fiction populated by tough guys, cops, villains and femmes fatales of the parish, there is no denying that they are invariably stories where action and thrills are paramount and the reader is trapped in a whirlwind of adventure and suspense.
TV series that spawned it, the movie of Cowboy Bebop is a marvelous hodgepodge of hardboiled mystery fiction, science fiction action, and tragic love story, with more cultural influences than you could possibly list -- although Bebop otaku certainly have tried on their numerous fan websites.
The absorbing, permutative tour de force of narrative symmetry in which Murakami embeds his unique exploration of bilateralism puts Hardboiled.
Hardboileds, toffee, fudge and allsorts, crunches, cracknels, humbugs, glaciers, marzipan, and butterwelsh for the Welsh.
He has had short stories published in Deathrealm, Onionhead Literary Quarterly, The Edge, Heist, HandHeldCrime and the Berkeley Fiction Review and has short stories upcoming in Hardboiled, Outer Darkness, Crimewave, Blue Murder, Plots With Guns and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
He has stories upcoming in Ellery Queen's Mystery magazine and Hardboiled, as well as Crimewave in the UK.
He has stories upcoming in Ellery Queen's Mystery magazine, Hardboiled, Plots With Guns, as well as Crimewave in the UK.
There were warm flatbreads, hardboiled eggs, and a pot of lentils stewed with onions and bay leaves.
Despite powderburns and red-rimmed eyes, she grinned as she crumbled a hardboiled egg into a pocket of bread and dashed in red pepper sauce, slugging it down with chilled sumac tea.
Larkin and I had eaten a sandwich and a hardboiled egg ahead of the others, and that was as far as we ever strayed from the strait and narrow path.