Words from the Monastery (anthony.dauer@erols.com)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:16:13 -0400
Whether or not a woman can be a hardboiled protagonist ...
granted, the more watered down the definition becomes the
easier it's going to be for anyone to fit including Miss
Marple ... I think the techno-thriller has already replaced
the The Destroyer/Mercenary books ... or have they just
evolved? I find Phillip Marlowe to be very optimistic, he's
just not naive enough to live by that optimism ... it's his
hope.
Kate Derie wrote:
> Tell me again, was the question whether a woman
could write a hardboiled
> book, or whether a woman could be the protagonist in
same? IMHO, the
> gender inverse of the romance novel is the men's
adventure series--you
> know, The Destroyer, or The Mercenary, or whatever.
Churned out in mass
> quantities according to a strict formula (which does
not always exclude
> merit). Not *exactly* the same as hardboiled. My
concept of hardboiled
> can be defined by what it is not--not sentimental,
not pretentious, not
> polite, not optimistic. All gender-neutral
concepts.
-- volente Deo,
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