The Hawthorne story is "Wakefield." Hawthorne's interest in
allegory, I
believe, comes from reading Spenser's Faery Queen. We
digress, so I'll
be brief. Note also that those 19th-c. writers had a bit of
fun with
atmosphere that might be called noirish (Hawthorne stories,
Poe, etc.)
Nobody, however, alas, ever gets pistol-whipped.
On another topic: I've been reading Derek Raymond (the first
Factory
book): hard? yes bleak? sure, but also a police procedural.
Where does
that (sub?)genre fall in? One wouldn't call the Martin Beck
books
hardboiled, though they are also hard and bleak, no?
Raymond's
detective works alone and narration is first-person. Beck
books are
third-person and team oriented. Maybe that's a start to
teasing out the
differences.
Doug Levin
>
>Duane wrote recently, [Hammett] " had tumbling in his
brain all his
>critical takes
>on literature and a desire to use in his own work what
he'd learned from
>his reading."
>
>Wondered about that. Isn't the Flitcraft story close
to a Hawthorne story
>about a man who walks away from his wife and lives,
undetected, nearby for
>years? Can't recall the title. The allegorical
features of Falcon, noted
>by Fred Zackel, remind one of Hawthorne
also.
>
>Bill Hagen
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