Mark wrote:
>The difference isn't whether or not the society
within the book exists
>or existed, but how the society deals with the murder
and its aftermath.
>Hardboiled gives the impression of being about more
than a simple
>puzzle, of murder and crime making lasting
impressions.
Except that unlike in a classic western, the society is never
changed for the better - in that sense the murder means
nothing at all.
>". . . but you must not take a polemic piece of
writing like my own
>article from Atlantic [The Simple Art of Murder, from
which the above
>quote was pulled] too literally. I could have written
a piece of
>propaganda in favor of the English dertective story
just as easily. All
>polemic writing is over-stated. The instant you admit
that both sides
>in a controversy may be right, you have thrown away
your whole
>argument."
Quite. You think Chandler was in the debating team at
Dulwich?
Cheers Chris
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