mr. smith says:
You must be in the Chandler camp on the ideas of
romanticism in the hard-boiled, whereas I think the very
nature of what Hammett and Cain did was much more like the
Modernist experiment ("direct treatment of the thing itself"
and "a hard and dry" writing).
****
yeah... maybe i am a chandler guy, although i have yet to
read him. and although hemingway might not have started the
"hard and dry", he became noted for it, and i am a big fan of
his. but there was something to be read into his books... the
"hard and dry" pointed to what remained unsaid, which was the
essence of the work. without that, the writing is
nothing.
miker
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