--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In Benjamin Appel's essay "Labels" in Madden's
Tough
> Guy Writers of the Thirties, Appel discusses
the
> intermingling between Marxist and hardboiled
themes.
> Have you read any novels where both themes
were
> present? What were they? Was it a convincing
mix?
> Do you see any contradictions between the two
themes?
It's surprised me to learn how many of the hardboiled writers
had leftist leanings. Len Zinberg was a socialist democrat so
much that he used the psuedonym Ed Lacy to publish his
fiction. Bruno Fischer had leftist leanings as well. Both
were politically active, Fischer having run for public office
and lived in an upstate NY cooperative. More recently, Dennis
Lynds used liberalist themes as seen in his PI Dan Fortune
books. These writers all championed the little guy and his
reduced circumstances. Sometimes the politics got in front of
their writing and the main story was sidelined for a few
paragraphs. I've never been bothered or distracted by reading
their politics, though.
Ed Lynskey
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