> >I've been utilizing the paradigm of the 'private investigator' or >'detective' in my creative visual work. An early favorite was Genet's 'The >Erasers,' ** where the detective causes a previously-fictional crime to occur >by investigating-it. >{ brad brace } <<<< bbrace@netcom.com >>>> ~finger for pgp > >Reverse Solidus: http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html I think there is a confusion here. ** 'Ereasers' is by Alain Robbe-Grillet, French author and theoretician of the 'new novel' movement. This book was published in French in 1953 and translated into English in 1964. The 'new novel' movement attacks the conventional construction of a novel in its plot and narrative parts. In French 'detective' novels there was of course some influence on some writers with this new approach . Due to the kind of public the publishers think they have for detective/crime novels, there was however rarely a full exploration of that kind of construction in the detective/crime genre. Robbe-Grillet just used the detective plot as a mean. I personally do not think it's a detective novel in its intention. E.Borgers http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384/ Hard-Boiled Mysteries - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca