Re: RARA-AVIS: intro

Anthony Smith (ansmith@netdoor.com)
Sun, 5 Apr 1998 20:01:20 -0500 > >Glad to see you read _White Jazz_, . . . [b]ut what did you think?
>
> -- I found the style offputting at first, stream of consciousness maybe,
> but who actually thinks like that? Then once I got into it, I found it
> only occasionally annoying (that sense you sometimes get that somehow you
> know better than the writer what word should go where). Great story,
> though, and I was wondering whether the other books in the series were
> written in a similarly difficult style.

The 1st person, hipster slang was unusual, but I loved the style of it, was
really awed by the language. No, not stream of consciousness, then.
Ellroy has said it's like "a fever dream."
Starting with LA Confidential and on, Ellroy does use this extremely cut
narration, but mostly in third person (the novels), and it is not so
difficult. Am Tabloid is a good example.

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