>Here are some of what I regard as key pre-Auster works
with postmodern
>noir agendas. . . .
>Patricia Highsmith: "The Tremor of Forgery"
I'll have to look for this one. I've read "The Talented Mr.
Ripley" and
enjoyed it. It's insidious and creeped me out.
>Philip K. Dick: two cop novels, "Flow My Tears the
Policeman Said" and "A
>Scanner Darkly"
I've only read one book from Dick: "Do Androids Dream of
Electric
Sheep?" It was okay, but I haven't been moved to read another
PKD novel,
no matter how much praise I've read about him. He strikes me
as one of
those writers with marvelous ideas but whose execution kind
of
falters--or at least his style doesn't seem to suit my
tastes.
>Leonardo Sciascia, a great "doomed-detective" novelist
whom nobody seems
>to have mentioned: "Equal Danger" and "To Each His
Own"
>
I'm not familiar with this person at all. What can you tell
us about
him?--Duane
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