Bill Denton:
<<Didn't it go the other way, too? Didn't Camus say
he'd been influenced by a Serie Noir writer? I can't remember
where I read this.>>
I think it was James Cain -- who was also very influential
with Goodis and Thompson (a critic once accused Thompson of
being a Cain copycat without the talent).
<<Willeford was well up on his existentialists, and I
bet the others were too.>>
I'm not surprised about Willeford. In several novels he
combines existentialism with surrealism (and a few other
things). Besides his superior talent, I think he differs
radically from Goodis and Thompson in his wicked sense of
humor and the wry literary expression of it. Willeford's work
will never become "camp". He brewed a secret blend never to
be duplicated.
I will look up some references on Camus and try to get the
influence game more or less straight. I'm sure that after a
while it went both ways, in both literature and cinema.
Regards,
mt
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