miker wrote:
"Mark has mentioned that when everyone in Ellroy's work seems
to share the same prejudice, it makes him start to wonder
about the author's intentions. Although I don't personally
see that in Ellroy, . . ."
For the record, I didn't see it in earlier Ellroy (at least
not while I was reading them, although in retrospect . . .).
It only really started to seem to call attention to itself
late in the LA Quartet (though not enough to override the
other things I liked in it). It really bothered me in
American Tabloid, where everyone seemed to have the same
racist and homophobic attitudes. This may very well have been
more due to sloppy characterisation (a lot of the characters
blurred for me in other ways, as well), but when the default
attitude seems to be a uniform racism and homophobia, I've
got to start wondering if it doesn't say more about the
author than the characters.
Of course, with Ellroy, it may very well say more about him
trying to be scandalous by taunting PC attitudes than his
personal attitudes.
Mark
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