Kip wrote:
"Faulkner's SANCTUARY probably caught the attention of a few
proto-hardboilers when it appeared, but his biggest
contribution to the
noir/mystery/crime/hardboiled/pulp/whatever genre was through
his work on screenplays like TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, MILDRED
PIERCE, and THE BIG SLEEP."
So, given that Faulkner clearly read (or had to read) some
hardboiled in his Hollywood days, did hardboiled have any
influence on his style?
By the way, I had an English professor at the University of
Maryland, C.C. Mish, the same one Pelecanos cites as having
turned him on to hardboiled fiction, who argued that Chase's
No Orchids for Miss Blandish was a rip-off of Faulkner's
Sanctuary.
Mark
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