Re: Re[2]: RARA-AVIS: Broadly speaking

William F. Limbacher (fritzzz@reporters.net)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 16:07:50 -0000 Reeves Minot wrote:
<<After all, the very reason the French adored American hard-boiled fiction by Chandler,
Hammett, MacDonald, Cain, et al, was precisely because these authors were writing
about the real world, about their times as opposed to the cozy English
mystery writers. >>

I can't speak for the French of that time, but my *impression* of the zeitgeist is that these
American writers' works were surealistic, e.g., "nothing is as it seems," which somehow struck
a chord with a certain segment of the French artistic scene of the time. And which MacDonald
are you referring to, John D.?

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fritzzz@reporters.net
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