A. Ferraiolo (a.ferraiolo@worldnet.att.net)
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:47:43 +0100
Hello list . . . coming out of lurk land to say I couldn't
agree more . . . Rhys is as hard and as boiled as they come .
. . what a great idea for an ariticle . . . please post it
when you're done, if you can that is --- angela
-----Original Message----- From: a.n.smith <ansmith@netdoor.com>
To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
<rara-avis@icomm.ca>
Date: Thursday, December 02, 1999 12:19 AM Subject: Re:
RARA-AVIS: Sensitive detectives
>
>> Hardboiled is an attitude, not a style or a
genre. There are genres
>within it,
>> or types, like the hardboiled private eye story.
But it really depends
on
>what
>> you'll let past the doorkeeper.
>
>It's a combination. Most hardboiled writing has been
associated with the
>crime genre, but I'm in complete agreement with you
that we find it in
>literary writing as well. I'm not interested in
locking it in place--which
>is why I thought that asking what is "truly
hardboiled" shows someone who
>must think there is a strict formula.
>
>I'm working on an article comparing Jean Rhys to
Hammett. She wasn't a
>crime writer, but her attitude and worldview seems
hardboiled to me. The
>early novels, where the lead is always a single woman
involved with married
>men, dangerous men, one-night-stands, and lots of
alcohol. She had a nice
>writing style, much more stark than the modernist
Europeans at the time,
>certainly sharing quite a lot with Hammett and
Chandler and Cain's prose.
>
>So I can agree that it is an attitude, but not one
that demands a
particular
>characterization or set of standards. And I do think
style has a lot to do
>with it, since that's the prose and the language
working there. Regardless
>of all the great literary writers who fall into the
hardboiled category, my
>favorites are still the ones who write about
crime.
>
>Neil Smith
>
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