There was a scholarly piece published circa 1970 by, I think,
Professor Van Meter, which looked at the element of myth in
detective fiction. I think it was called "Sophocles and the
Detectives," or something like that. I don't remember much
about it (as if that weren't obvious by now), but I do
remember that it mentions _Red Harvest_ by name.
G.
--- Juri Nummelin <
jurnum@utu.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Mark Sullivan wrote:
>
> > However, I've got
> > to wonder how original the loner playing two
gangs
> against each other
> > plot (also at the root of Glass Key, my
favorite
> of his, also) was when
> > Hammett told it. I can't think of any
direct
> antecedents, but my
> > knowledge of pre-20th century literature is
patchy
> at best. Does it
> > show up in older literature?
>
> We've talked about this also in the past. I
managed
> to present things in
> a very convoluted manner. I got two authors mixed
up
> together, Carlo
> Collodi of the Pinocchio fame and Carlo Goldoni,
the
> writer of "Servant
> of Two Masters". It's a 18th century play about
the
> guy who serves two
> masters at the same time. This is all I know
about
> the matter, but I
> have a feeling I've read somewhere that this is
what
> Kurosawa had in
> mind when he made "Yojimbo" and not "Red
Harvest".
>
> But, as you might remember, Kurosawa must've
had
> some kind of an
> attitude towards American crime literature, since
he
> filmed Ed McBain as
> early as 1963 in "High and Low", two years after
he
> had made "Yojimbo".
>
> Juri
>
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