Re: Re[2]: RARA-AVIS: Broadly speaking
James Rogers (jetan@ionet.net)
Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:21:37 -0500 (CDT)
At 12:58 AM 8/26/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
> Would it then be safe to use Durkheim's term "anomie"
to describe the
>social situation that the idealized hard-boiled
protagonist rises above to
>create his own system of morals, to make his own rules?
This seems to be
>yet another parallel between existentialism and the
hard-boiled universe.
>Is not Camus's Meursault a hard-boiled character, if we
follow the above
>definition?
>
>Brian
>
Probably. I think that Madden was the person who came up
with the connection of Camus to James Cain in the first
place.
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
Mundus Vult Decipi
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