Hi Jim, Well, the most obvious political allegory of The
Killer Inside Me, is that the protagonist is an elected
official. He's a complete hypocrit who pretends to be a law
enforcement advocate but in fact uses law enforcement as a
mask for his true intensions which are entirely self
gratifying. I think all of Thompson's work is very political.
He explores the options open to the poor and powerless in the
United States and that's the emphasis of every one of his
books. On the other hand virtually none of them are
atmospherically similar. Some take place in west coast
cities; others in western or mid-western towns.
Patrick King
--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Patrick King wrote:
>
> You miss argueably the most important: Jim
Thompson.
> By all accounts Thompson definitely had a
political
> agenda. Note especially A Hell of a Woman,
The
> Grifters and The Killer Inside Me.
>
> ***********
> I see nothing significantly political about
The
> Killer
> Inside Me. And his little allegory of capitalism
in
> The Getaway is compromised by the fact that
there
> are
> no other options for the characters.
>
> miker
>
>
>
>
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