ATD & Raymond Chandler

[Humberto Torofuerte]

May be resurrecting a dead topic here, but some interesting notes on the
Hardboiled genre to be fournd here....

http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/


On 1/13/07, MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com> wrote:
>
> << The Lew Archer reference is a must. Ross Macdonald said of his
> character
> if you turned him sideways he'd disappear. The books work by Lew asking
> questions and then more questions and the focal characters of  each drama
> gradually
> reveal the entanglements and agonies of the past which have produced the
> current situation that
> Lew has been called upon to resolve. >>
>
> MacDonald was great plotter.  Because, as you say, of his use of history,
> never do his plots hang by coincidence.  Every seeming coincidence,
> however
> seemingly far-fetched, connects in the end.
>
> Eudora Welty was a great fan of his (by the way).
>
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