Rendezvous with the night Carco as a novelist of the edge

Francis Carco’s novelistic universe quickly developed a reputation with the public: the favored underworld haunts and characters who exemplify the denizens of a shady underbelly mark his work as genre fiction. Though not a theorist, Carco figured out how to use novelistic fiction to indirectly reflect on how he used these clichés and the relationship that the public could imagine with an output all too hastily seen as commercial.