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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Frederick Zackel"
<fzackel@w...> wrote:
>
> For my money, what I like most about Macdonald's
work is that he
added
> compassion to his tragedies. The Blue Hammer, for
instance, which
was
> Macdonald's last work, ends with a father & son
embrace.
Forgiveness, in a
> curious way, for murder. On the other hand,
compassion is absent
in
> Hammett, for instance. There's zip mercy on any
page. Can you
talk about
> Chandler & Compassion? I dunno. At the risk of
pissing off
people, when I
> consider Chandler & Compassion in the same
breath, Marlowe makes
me think of
> him as a whiner. Can we talk about Compassion in the
Hard-boiled
Novel?
> Compassion in Noir?
>
> Stepping back into the shadows to
reload...
>
> Fred Zackel
>
That's a fair statement about Hammett. He had zero mercy and
that made some stories more effective and others a bit empty.
I think you are right that Macdonald brought compassion to
the PI story, and that is a significant contribution.
Richard Moore
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