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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "ssshapir"
<ssshapir@...> wrote:
>
> Some of my favourite detective fiction is pretty
softboiled. Has
> anyone read the Boruvka stories of Josef Skvorecky?
Sublime stuff.
> (Skvorecky, incidentally, translated Chandler into
Czech, so he knows
> a thing or two about genre. 'Miss Silver's Past' and
'The Miracle
> Game', while both very literary works--Nobel
prize-winning territory
> as far as I'm concerned--are at heart (or should
that be in the
> stomach?) detective thrillers.
>
> And as for hardboiled--it crops up in Alfred
Bester's sci-fi all the
> time. If you ignore the trappings of robots and
space ships and such,
> what you're really reading is a punchy, pacey
Hammettesque thriller.
>
THESTARS MY DESTINATION is a variation of THE COUNT OF MONTE
CRISTO and is a Of course THE DEMOLISHED MAN could be
compared with CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Some of his short stories
could be considered variations of hard boiled or noir. Mark
Mark
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