On 10/7/05, Michael Robison wrote:
>
> Tribe wrote:
>
> I'm sure you'd agree that urban settings and
cynical,
> loner protagonists, in and of themselves,
don't
> necessarily equate to hard boiled. Aside from
that,
> there has to be that thing we call "style" to make
it
> hardboiled.
>
> **************
> Are you talking about the lean and clean style
that's
> typically associated with Hemingway and epitomized
by
> Hammett in the hardboiled genre? The reason
I'm
> asking is because although I understand that style
is
> popular, I see a lot of variation. Chandler's
writing
> was more poetic, with more simile and metaphor.
And
> there's the florid style of Cormac McCarthy in
BLOOD
> MERIDIAN.
I am too a certain degreee mixing up style with
attitude...but notwithstanding the differences in "styles"
(as you correctly use it) between, say, Hammett and Chandler,
it's still recognized as hard-boiled. And I just don't have
that "know it when I see it" sense when I read much of the
so-called cyber-punk school.
Tribe
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