M-T (matrxtech@sprintmail.com)
Wed, 04 Aug 1999 13:29:23 -0400
A thoughtful post, Jay. I like to imagine that Goodis's
characters are what Malamud's most shady characters could
become if they weren't so completely repressed and bound to
their communities and rituals. In Malamud, criminality is
usually either latent or petty, while Goodis's characters
break out on their own towards final ruin. A quintessentially
Jewish form of bad luck is shared by both authors; in Goodis,
there is a liberation by destruction; in Malamud, a suffering
that does not kill but *never* goes away.
Is this parallel too far out? Let's keep this Goodis
discussion going. We should put something by him on the
reading list; warts and all, he is a major noir writer.
Regards,
mt
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