miker,
I know you're a huge fan of McCarthy. How does his The Road
fit into this? I'm not being sarcastic, really asking the
question. I haven't read it (yet), so I really don't know.
But the reviews I have read, and some of the comments here,
make it sound like it might fit into postmodernism.
As for Foucault's theories of power being inscribed in
language, although he can be overly deterministic in his
application, is the basic idea really very far removed from
Chandler or Hammett's ideas about power's relationship to
crime?
Mark
ps -- if you do want to try Robbe Grillet, The Erasers is his
closest to
(though still not entirely) an orthodox crime novel. The
Voyeur would certainly fit in with the books we discuss her,
too.
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