All the PI needs is a good story. Who cares if it's
realistically realistic? As Chandler and others have pointed
out, all that matters is that the story be psychologically
realistic. Many outrageously fantastic stories (entire
genrefuls of them, in fact) are realistic in this sense. Is
Shakespeare realistically realistic? Cervantes? Kafka?
Bradbury? Borges? Bioy? Calvino?
Only an automatic preconception of the PI genre as "not
literature" can make us reject in that literary genre what we
accept in virtually all others.
Best,
MrT
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