I meant to say I skimmed "And the Hippos Were Boiled in their
Tanks," not perused.
On Jan 31, 2008 11:13 AM, Nathan Cain <
indiecrime@gmail.com> wrote:
> The late trilogy is called "The Western Lands,"
(Cities of the Red
> Night, The Place of Dead Roads, The Western Lands)
and it is
> (surprise, surprise) a Western. I believe one of
Burroughs first
> efforts was a collaboration with Jack Kerouac called
"And The Hippos
> Were Boiled in Their Tanks," or something of that
sort. It is, if I'm
> not mistaken, a hardboiled effort. I perused it when
it was released
> an a postmortem Burroughs anthology, but I can't say
I remember it
> very well, and I'm at work so I don't have the book
handy. Burroughs
> was definitely influenced by hardboiled and noir
fiction, and one of
> the major conceits of his early works involves the
Nova Police trying
> to stop Intersellar criminals called the Noval Mob
from destryoing the
> planet. So Burroughs tended to play with the three
major genres
> (Westerns, Sci-fi and Crime) as part of his rather
ecletic, surreal
> style. He was influenced early on by the work of
Jack Black, who
> sounds like an interesting character:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Black_%28author%29
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2008 7:33 AM, Juri Nummelin <
juri.nummelin@pp.inet.fi> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Don't you think William Burroughs fits the
description of a writer who
> > transcends the crime and thriller genre? JUNKIE
is a deeply noirish book and
> > QUEER takes it to a more experimental level.
The beginning of THE NAKED
> > LUNCH is quite hardboiled and noir - the rest
of the book is totally
> > something else, though. I haven't read his late
trilogy (what's it called
> > now, The Lands-something), but I just read a
review saying it plays with the
> > thriller and mystery genres.
> >
> > Apart from that, Georges Perec must've known
the American noir. He wrote the
> > screenplay for SERIE NOIRE, a 1976 film based
on Jim Thompson's novel
> > (forgot which).
> >
> > By the way, has anyone seen the early movies
that Jean-Patrick Manchette
> > wrote in the sixties? How are they like?
Anything like his novels or just
> > pure euroexploitation? (Check the IMDb for
titles.)
> >
> > Juri
> >
> >
>
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