Hi Juri,
I love Double Indemnity. The imagery of Phyllis on that boat
at the end is absolutely chilling. That being said, I don't
think Jim Thompson was necessarily influenced by Cain.
Certainly not in his writing style. And Thompson's first two
novels, Now and on Earth + Heed the Thunder seemed heavily
influenced by Faulkner. Cain's style of noir was also quite
different than Thompson's. With Cain, you had people crossing
the line (committing murder, adultery, etc.) that dooms them.
with Thompson you have people who are just broken and have no
chance. Actually, Rex Stout's How Like a God (which was
published before Postman) is more inline with Thompson than
anything Cain wrote.
-Dave Z.
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Juri Nummelin
<juri.nummelin@p...> wrote:
> I've said this here in an earlier occasion and I now
repeat it:
the line coming from James M. Cain is more interesting than
the line coming from Hammett and Chandler. We wouldn't have
Jim Thompson, we wouldn't have Day Keene's and Gil Brewer's
best works etc. The other line has lots of crappy imitators,
full of empty PI bubble and overdose of similes and
supposedly funny lines.
>
> Juri
>
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