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Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Library of America (79-80) BevatRaymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America) door Raymond Chandler Het grote slapen door Raymond Chandler (indirect) Vaarwel mijn lief door Raymond Chandler (indirect) La ventana alta / Asesino bajo la lluvia door Raymond Chandler (indirect) De vrouw in het meer door Raymond Chandler (indirect) Het kleine zusje door Raymond Chandler (indirect) Tot ziens, Mr. Marlowe door Raymond Chandler (indirect) Proficiat, Mr. Marlowe door Raymond Chandler (indirect) Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay door Billy Wilder (indirect)
With these words, private eye Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's great literary creation and one of the most enduringly popular characters in American fiction, first took life seventy-five years ago. Here, for the first time in a deluxe collector's box, are all seven Philip Marlowe novels-The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Lady in the Lake; The Little Sister; The Long Goodbye; and Playback-along with thirteen classic pulp stories, Chandler's brilliant screenplay for Double Indemnity, and a selection of his revealing essays and letters- the most comprehensive edition of the hard-boiled crime fiction of Raymond Chandler ever published. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Most of the positive comments centred around the clever use of language … short, punchy wise-cracking similes, and Marlowe’s own unembellished narrative managed to bring out the atmosphere of the place and time perfectly.
Out-dated and totally sexist in their manner, these books still held some sentiment with many of us. It took us back to the days of Dick Tracy and Phantom comics, black and white movies. A time when bad language was considered bad form and sexual innuendo more powerful than the act itself!
Yes, we all agree that novel writing has changed since the 1940s and that it would be hard to find an appreciative audience for PI Marlowe today. But that said, he was a man of his time and put in his own words, “a good guy in a bad job”, who went out every day in service of ‘evil in the streets’. Corny? Yes, but fun none-the-less.
Our learned lesson for this month may well be that … as readers, we need not always take ourselves too seriously. ( )