Sharon Villines (sharonvillines@prodigy.net)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 08:28:00 -0500
> When I say "Worldview," I don't mean the social and
political stuff, which I
> agree ruins a lot of fiction nowadays. I'm thinking
of the way the
> characters in Hammett and Cain looked at their own
lives and the world
> around them--the one they lived in day by day. More
about a personal take
> on human existance, the gray areas of morality.
Something that comes across
> in the fiction and is compelling and relates to
those characters right
> there, right then.
That's what I mean too. A world view starts right there, and
influences everything else.
Sharon.
-- Sharon Villines, Editor MacGuffin Guide to Detective Fiction http://www.macguffin.net MacGuffinL@onelist.com sharon@macguffin.net
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