Re: RARA-AVIS: Broadly speaking
Mark Sullivan (ANONYMEINC@webtv.net)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 00:49:10 -0400 (EDT)
I think, perhaps, that the reason Harris is not hardboiled is
not
because his protagonists are too introspective, you don't get
much more
introspective than some of the private eyes we do include. I
think it is
that they are too institutional. They generally work within the
system,
not as an outsider. For instance, when Clarice enters the
serial
killer's home alone, it is not because she has gone renegade,
but
because she thought she was interviewing a material witness. It
is only
after she notices some things that she is forced to confront
him alone
and even then only after he notices her notice and he forces
the issue.
And, even if she did occasionally go outside the lines, it was
in hopes
of career advancement, an organizational concern and not for
vengeance,
a loner's concern.
Mark
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