--- Patrick King <
abrasax93@yahoo.com> wrote:
>If Mickey Spillane becomes
> "classic hard-boiled" fiction, it will be due to
the
> books. But it's the books' attitude toward
reality,
> not their violent content, that undermine
their
> chances. Green, Forsyth, LeCarre, Clancy &
Cussler
> are
> all just as violent. Their attitude about
people
> tend
> to be more universally current.
>
Not wanting to go off on a tangent here but I have a problem
with Greene even being compared to Spillane and the others
for that matter. Graham Greene wrote about humanity and
worked in numerous genres to bring those stories across. The
others didn't. They wrote genre that sometimes contained
depth. But that was never their intent. I don't believe any
of the other writers could even imagine let alone create "A
Burnt-Out Case' and I think it one of Greene's lesser works.
Greene is a guy who wrote about the world because he
travelled the world and he knew the spies, bar girls,
dictators, doctors, do-gooders and other players in wars and
revolutions and sad and pointless affairs. In Greene's world
there was violence because his world is our world. Spillane's
world is not. And the others? In Greene's league? Never gonna
happen . .
.
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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