Davis on Chandler

[rich]

like alot of things in IV its not really flushed out to any
degree--there's a brief mention of it in the book and that's about it,
in the bit w/ Fritz in his skip tracing days

there's too much of that in IV


On 8/18/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> Its the essence of the noir hero that he seeks redemption for something in
> his past.  In the promo video for IV, Doc refers to setting up drug busts
> for the cops, etc.  For someone like Doc, this would be a heavy load to
> carry.  I didn't get a sense in the book about how complicit he'd been with
> the cops in the past.  Can anyone enlighten me?
>
> Laura
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
>
>>
>>
>>"Marlowe, the avenging burgher, totters precariously on the
>>precipice of fascist paranoia. Each successive Chandler novel
>>focuses on a new target of Marlowe's dislike: Blacks, Asians,
>>gays, 'greasers', and, always, women. In this regard it is
>>useful to recall the genealogy of the hardboiled detective hero:
>>the special 1923 issue of The Black Mask on the Ku Klux Klan
>>that introduced Carroll John Daly's nativist detective 'Race
>>Williams' as the prototype of tough guy crusaders against
>>(foreign-born) corruption." Mike Davis, _City of Quartz_.
>>Pimlico 1998. P. 91 n42.
>>
>>
>>Nothing as refreshing as a swig of good old self-righteous type
>>leftist [or elsewhere, rightist] sensitivity every now and then.
>>
>>
>>Heikki
>
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