Kevin wrote:
> As for James Ellroy, we just rented JAMES ELLROY:
DEMON DOG OF
> AMERICAN CRIME FICTION, a Austrian TV documentary
that came out about
> the time of the publication of WHITE JAZZ. It's like
rubbernecking a
> car wreck - fascinating, but then we feel guilty for
looking. This
> isn't the calm, articulate Ellroy that we saw on
that PBS PAGE TO
> SCREEN thing a few nights ago, this is the tiresome
pretentious jerk
> who we all know and love, playing up the myth of big
bad America for
> the Europeans. He wants us to take him seriously,
but he comes off as
> a Robert Leslie Bellem character.
>
> Hmmm.... Ellroy as the bastard child of Bellem and
Jim Thompson, with
> delusions of Proust. anyone buy that?
Not only do I buy it, I completely agree with it, especially
the allusion to delusions of being the second coming of
Marcel Proust.
Great post!
Brian
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