Mark D-J says:
<<What the hell is wrong with something being a damn
fine crime novel? I've enjoyed a lot of those a lot more than
a lot of the capital-L Literature I've read (which is
arguably a genre of its own).>>
So arguably that I reject the proposition out of hand.
Literature is made up of all the genres, and includes,
besides pure genre works, lots of works that either span
several genres or are so singular that they can't be easily
pegged --or that belong to genres that will only be
identified as such and named later...
Of course Leonard writes literature. What else could he have
been doing all these years and decades?
Best, and thanks for the update on Leonard. I have this one
and the previous one still to read, though I do reread the
old ones regularly. The last one was Mr. Majestyk, a wicked
piece of work and a minor masterpiece of the Leonardiana
genre.
Best,
MrT
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