<<As a matter of fact, was he considered such before
Macdonald was annointed? Wasn't it in
retrospect?>>
I don't think so. In fact, I remember reading that Faulkner
considered and treated Chandler as an equal. Macdonald was
anointed by Leonard, but before that, critics saw him as a
less exciting Chandler with more psychological depth, which
is about right, I think.
Some of the crap in the article reminds me of Edmund Wilson's
wrongheaded assessments of the crime genre. Wilson was a
great critic, but here he shows a dead ear rather than a keen
intellect.
Best,
Mario
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