I had only one class in crime fiction in all my seven years
in the university of Tampere, Finland. (There was also one
class in science fiction.) But it concentrated on crime
fiction in general and most of the papers were made on
writers in whom I wasn't so interested. As for hardboiled
stuff, I think I knew more about it than the whole bunch
together. (During the course I sold my not-very-good Chandler
translation of "Lady in the Lake" to the teacher of the
class.)
I had just read Francis Iles, who is not hardboiled, but very
interesting nonetheless. I tried to suggest that I could
write my paper on his "Before the Fact", but the teacher said
that he didn't know the book. I ended up writing a very
critical paper on Christie's "Orient Express", a bit
deconstructive if you know what I mean. No one really
understood me.
Juri
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