>All this talk of magical realism aside, I have noticed
a few hardboiled
>authors who have injected some surrealness into the
proceedings (I'm not
>talking real fantasy or sci-fi/crime crossovers, like
crime-solving
>vampires, android gumshoes, or stuff like that). For
example, James Lee
>Burke's been having dead people as recurring
characters lately, Jeremiah
>Healy's John Cuddy frequently gets advice from his
long-dead wife, and Paco
>Ignacio Taibo killed off his Mexico City P.I., Hector
Shayne in one book,
>and brought him back in the next without a word of
explanation. Yet these
>books are all pretty down to earth, other than all
these stiffs walking
>around or yapping their heads off.
>
For surrealism, it's hard to top Cain's ending to
_Double
Indemnity_, or the even more bizarre conclusions to
Thompson's _Savage
Night_ and _The Getaway_.
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
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