In a recent post Brian attributed the following quote to
me:
> '"What is a tough guy or hardboiled
novel?.....a
>few observations are appropriate here. The lower
social and economic levels
>provide the locale and characters of tough novels; it
is mainly the private
>detective novels that penetrate to the underworld, and
in those novels high
>society often completes the social picture - the poles
meet, clash, merge,
>often prove essentially identical.....[Madden makes
the point that the
>protagonist thrives in periods of social confusion and
disillusion, such as
>the depression].....The tough guy hero is not very
often a professional
>killer or criminal; such men are tough in any era.
Except in the private
>detective novels, the tough novels depict less crime
and violence than one
>might imagine......Reacting in kind to the
indifferent, violent,
>deceptiveworld that made him, the tough guy describes
and reponds
>objectively to a world that made him an
object."
>
> James'
I forget which James actually wrote this, but it wasn't me.
I'm flattered to be
credited, but the actual credit belongs to someone else. -
Jim Doherty
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