--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Frederick Zackel"
<fzackel@w...> wrote:
> Ross Macdonald wrote several essays talking about
Gatsby as a sort
of detective novel. I would refer you to Macdonald's
"Self-portrait: Ceaselessly into the Past," published by
Capra Press in 1981. "The skeleton of Fitzgerald's great
work, if not its nervous system, is that of a maystery
novel." Elsewhere in the essays Macdonald talks how he reads
Gatsby once a year. "Like Mark Twain and Stephen Crane,
Fitzgerald listened to people talking before he sat down to
write."
>
> Best
>
> Fred Zackel
>
I'm curious: Is "Gatsby as detective" purely a Ross Macdonald
theory or are there other references to it? I've read,
enjoyed and appreciated many Ross Macdonald novels and Tom
Nolan's excellent biography. But I don't know that I could
force myself to read an essay by Macdonald entitled
"Self-portrait: Ceaselessly into the Past."
Richard Moore
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