On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Mario Taboada wrote:
> Carrie:
> <<I've liked Ed McBain's, Ben Benson's and
Collin Wilcox's
> police procedurals, even though there are no
deep
> characterizations.>>
This was not Carrie, it was me.
> I have not read Benson, but I know the work of
McBain and
> Wilcox very well. Why do you say their
characterizations
> aren't "deep"? True, neither of them has created
as
> powerful a character as, say, Mario Balzic or Easy
Rawlins,
> but that doesn't mean that their characters are
cartoons or
> dummies.
Powerful and deep aren't synonyms in my vocabulary. Hammett's
characters are powerful, but they are not deep. Deep has some
pejorative meanings in my messages.
> I am beginning to suspect a forked path here: some
readers
> consider that the character is real if it speaks *to
them*,
> whereas others prefer characters that speak *to the
story*.
> Because I am distant by nature, I prefer the second
kind.
So do I.
But enough of this from me. Must get back to work.
Juri
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