Joshua Kronengold wrote: >FRIEDA2133 at aol.com writes: > > >>Joshua, I am wondering ("Some Reflect, Others Wonder" The >>Phoenix Guards Chapter 18.) what ways you think the Vlad books >>imitate the style of a previous work? >> >> > >Google for Taltos and Chandler. Unlike the Guards books, they do not, >to my knowledge, use specific scenes, story elements, and themes from >a previous work, but they are very much a pastiche of Chandler >language-wise. > > > Not Chandler, Zelazny. But that gets less and less strong as the series unrolls. The French killed off the notion of influence studies in literary criticism decades ago, but I would find Brust's opinion of Zelazny interesting, just for the sake of assuaging curiosity. Snarkhunter