Mr T.
I think Faulkner's opacity and the
floridity of his prose made him an unlikely model for the
hard-boiled writers of his time, and to some degree of ours.
It's not complexity that mystery writers can't handle, many
of the good ones can and do create multilayered fiction. I
believe Faulkner is just too round about in his story telling
to win acolytes among most hard-boiled authors.
You can find him easily in Burke,
occasionally in John Lutz and for certain in people like Toby
Olson, but most of the hard-edged, gritty folks are much more
straight ahead than Faulkner. Lean, linear, and close to the
bone, he was not.
Jim
Blue
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