Re: RARA-AVIS: Reality: still a questionable concept
Mark Sullivan (ANONYMEINC@webtv.net)
Wed, 5 Aug 1998 18:22:16 -0400 (EDT)
As far as surrealism in contemporary hardboiled, one of the
best is Jack
O'Connell's series set in the fictional and surreal town of
Quinsigamond
(anyone know where that name comes from? It rings major bells).
I'm
not talking about the quirky surrealism of David Lynch, but the
dark
noirish expressionism of Fritz Lang's German films like M. So I
guess
I'm not talking about surrealism so much as expressionism.
Anyway, the
books are great; Box Nine, Wireless and The Skin Palace.
Mark
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