Mario wrote:
"I'll say the writer is misinformed. . . . She is also wrong
in putting Ross Macdonald (who represents a shift towards the
psychological) in with the hardboiled school."
Of course, she's ill informed, this is all building towards a
review of Haruki Murakami as a hardboiled writer. Murakami
may have a noirish overtone. He may have clearly read
Chandler and show his influence in his writing. He may have
even put the world Hardboiled into one of his titles.
However, this doesn't necessarily make him a harboiled
writer. If you're looking to the west, Murakami has at least
as much in common with magical realism as American
hardboiled. And even knowing very little about them, I can
tell he has even more to do with Japanese myths and
legends.
He is very, very good, but I really don't see him as
hardboiled.
Mark
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