The toning down of the hardboiled stance in Ross Macdonald
may be related to the fact that Macdonald did not start out
in the pulps but as a "serious" novelist. He definitely
wanted to be taken seriously. His realistic and objective
style is one reason why he was taken far more seriously than
most genre writers. Another is his constant exploration of
the human psyche, which is unusual among PI writers even
today.
To an imaginative, protean, cut-to-the-quick writer like
Gault, Macdonald must have seemed sterile. Macdonald would be
the literary equivalent of Bergman (same story, or fragments
thereof, over and over, always solid, always moving, always
the same...). Hell, Macdonald is overrated and Gault is
seriously underrated. There, the cycle begins all over. Now
I'm forced to read an Archer or two to balance the
pH...
Best,
MrT
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