Mr. T:
I agree with John's take--Thompson definitely too an
absurdist view of the world as strongly evidenced by "This
Wold, then the Fireworks" and "Pop. 1280". You can also see a
pro union slant from "Killer Inside Me" and some real
anger/sadness over the McCarthy communist witch hunt in
"Swell-Looking Babe", and additional liberal leanings in a
number of other books, probably most evident in "The
Criminal". Now if anyone can figure out Dan Marlowe's world
view from his novel, I'll be impressed!
--Dave
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, John Williams
<johnwilliams@...> wrote:
>
> Jacques Debierue wrote:
<mailto:rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>
>
> Speaking of views, does anyone here have any idea
what Jim
Thompson's
> worldviews were? I find him very hard to figure out,
the hardest
of all
> noir writers. He seems to defy analysis.
>
> __
> Lapsed Marxist maybe, with a dash of the
Himes/Willeford
existentialist
> take on the world as essentially absurd?
>
> John
>
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