Jim D.:
> I happen to write police procedurals, Juri, and
while
> they may not be classic examples of the form, they
are
> fairly TYPICAL examples of the form, and one they
are
> empatically, absolutely, indubitably,
without
> exception NOT is leftist.
I seem to have touched a nerve here, but that wasn't my
intention. Being a leftist is not a pejorative term for me
and I wasn't saying that the writers themselves are
necessarily leftists. I was merely saying that some forms of
a police procedural novel are in many ways opposed to heroic
individualism of the hardboiled genre and I find that
extremely interesting. As for the word community, maybe I
should've used the word "society". I didn't mean to imply
that being able to work together with other people means
you're a leftist.
> The fact of the matter is you're a lot more likely
to
> find novels about "lone wolf" private eyes
with
> leftist agendas than cop novels with such an
agenda.
> Roger Simon, Sara Paretsky, Michael Collins,
and
> Gordon DeMarco are just a few examples.
That's also true.
> As to your assertion that police act as a unit,
rather
> than as an individual, that certainly true, but
the
> members of those units are not, either in real life
or
> in fiction, mindless cogs in a soulless machine of
law
> enforcement.
Where I live, being a part of the society doesn't mean being
a "mindless cog in a soulless machine of law enforcement". It
also doesn't mean that they are not individuals, with
opinions, preferences and what else. That's certainly not
what I meant.
Juri
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