Mark Sullivan wrote:
> This reminds me of seeing the group My Bloody
Valentine (or Glenn
> Branca, for that matter). They played a single note,
very loudly, for
> 17 minutes. After a few minutes, your mind begins to
fill in things
> like melody. It seems to me that Hammett does much
the same, stay right
> at the fact, leading the reader to fill in his own
emotions. As Mario
> has pointed out, this is very hard to do well. Who
else has succeeded?
********* Hemingway's short story "Killers" is written
strictly in this fashion. It came out in a collection called
MEN WITHOUT WOMEN in 1927. To a lesser extent THE SUN ALSO
RISES, published in 1926, also uses this style, but it's
written in first person and Jake does make a few personal
observations.
In TOUGH GUY WRITERS OF THE THIRTIES, an essay states that
with this short story, Hemingway taught the hardboiled crew
how to write. Although I find this a laughable exaggeration,
I wish that I had a collection of the early Black Mask
stories to compare to the later ones. Most Black Mask
collections don't have many stories pre-1927, do they? Did
Hammett learn from Heming- way, or did Hemingway learn from
Hammett?
miker
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