Miker:
> I raised the question because a recent
> PI criticism I read suggested that the quality of
the
> PI genre went downhill during this
period.
Hasn't this been common criticism throughout the eighties and
still in the nineties? At least when I came in and started to
read the stuff (my first Chandler and Ross Macdonald being in
1985 or 1986), everyone was lamenting about the death of good
private eye writing. And everyone seemed to opine that there
hadn't been a good private eye writer after Macdonald. I had
these discussions with people still in the nineties when I
got to have a clue about what was going on in the US (and
what had been going on all the time). I remember very well
the astonishment with which people lauded writers like Elmore
Leonard and Willeford. They thought they came from nowhere,
from barren land that was once rich with writings of
Chandler, Macdonald and Hammett.
This was of course in Finland and lots of people didn't know
much about American crime literature. There were some
translations, such as Collins's ACT OF FEAR (which is truly
excellent), but I don't think that was widely read, and some
paperbacks, but they were deemed unreadable and utter
trash.
Juri http://pulpetti.blogspot.com
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