This list is supposed to welcome discussions of both
hardboiled/PI/police fiction AND noir fiction. I've been
thinking about the very different views of life that these
writers depict. Lately, we've discussed the difference
between Chandler and Hammmet. Not much difference there -
except in style. But try to compare the PI-novels - where
something is wrong and the PI corrects the wrong and
everybody's happy in the end - with the Goodis/McCoy/Thompson
view of life. These ways of writing - these problems that are
described - and the solutions to the problems, they are so
very different! I'm not saying anything's wrong, anybody can
discuss anything, but don't you agree that we're discussing
literature with fundamentally different views of life on this
list?
Regards, Geir Glosvik
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