Mario Taboada wrote:
> 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).
You must mean Julian Symons and his "Bloody Murder", in which
he says that Thompson is the best of the PBO writers, since
the others all look the same.
> 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.
Again: check James Naremore's "More Than Night". There the
story is: modernism, Hammett, Gide, Camus, Sartre, Faulkner,
Boris Vian, Serie Noire and the rest.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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