RARA-AVIS: Re: Ellroy's World
Bax Deal (BaxDeal@aol.com)
Sun, 17 May 1998 23:19:16 EDT
>does Ellroy also keep track of his characters and their
stories >as he moves
them from fiction to fiction, so that a given >character
(Loew, or Blanchard,
or Meeks) has a consistent >career? Wm. Faulkner, for
instance, worked at
building his >fictional world, with family histories
(Snopes, Sartoris)
>threading, more or less consistently through many
fictions. >Is Ellroy
taking that kind of care?
Ellroy does indeed, although Bucky Blanchard does not appear
after Black
Dahlia. I hope you are suitably impressed.
John Lau
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