> Jopi Nyman says that the hardboiled literature (and
not just detective
> fiction) arose when the women stepped into the man's
world, i.e. the
> so-called public sphere, and men started to feel
uncomfortable. And some
> guys came up with the hardboiled stuff, where men
could still feel like
> men and take no shit from any woman or any unmanly
man.
Gertrude Stein, lesbian extraordinaire and the popess of
Cubism and literary modernism, knew that; in "Autobiography
of Everybody", she mentions Hammett as the only writer she
wants to meet when she goes to California, to ask him what it
means to be a man. Check it out. It is in the very first
pages of the book.
NM
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