While you may be correct, I'm not sure you are, but I see
your point, Lehane's great success makes him a mover and
shaker whether we like it or not. Inevitably, publishers and
other writers are going to move in that direction because it
sells and easily moves to other media, meaning greater
revenue for everyone. Ellroy, for example, as we've seen
repeatedly, is hard to translate into film. I'm not sure any
of Peace's work can be transferred literally to film without
the film maker basically having to change the POV. Another
great writer who is making important advances in crime
fiction is Elmore Leonard, who uses humor liberally and very
effectively in contrast to horrible violence to make his
points. These guys do work with cohesive plots, but what they
do with characterization and social commentary, to my mind,
anyway, lifts them far above writers who's POV is so complex
it's not really clear what's actually happening and what's
only happening in their paranoid world view.
Patrick King
--- Steve Novak <
Cinefrog@comcast.net> wrote:
> Lehane excellent but yet vastly standard in
style,
> plot line, character
> development, subject choices,
ideology...etc...etc,
> and that hardly makes
> him one of �the new standards of the noir
> writing�...This is positively not
> a criticism of him, on the contrary, but
an
> innovator, a pionneer, a mover
> and shaker of the new noir entity...he is not
and
> certainly doesn�t pretend
> to be in any of his interviews,
comments...etc...no
> �new noir world view�
> from him to come soon...
>
> I certainly think that Andr�s question was
much
> larger than just an
> analysis of the plots of any authors for
that
> matter...the answer from Kerry
> (earlier today) set us up on the way and we
should
> welcome any other
> suggestions...along those parameters...
> Steve
>
> On 2/27/07 5:18 PM, "Patrick King"
> <
abrasax93@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > My vote goes to Dennis Lehane. While I enjoy
Elroy
> and
> > Peace, their plots are so scattered I can
never
> tell
> > whether the endings make sense or not. With
the
> > exception of Shutter Island, which is
brilliant
> even
> > though you don't know what's going on until
the
> end,
> > Lehane's novels make use of logical plot
evolution
> and
> > powerfully flawed characters. Of the one's
I've
> read,
> > he's about the best.
> >
> > Patrick King
>
>
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