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Fiction. Mystery. Short Stories. HTML: Authorized by the estate of the late Raymond Chandler, this volume reveals the missing life history and detective adventures of Philip Marlowe, one of the 20th century's most enduring and beloved characters. Marlowe is the quintessential American detective: cynical yet idealistic; romantic yet full of despair; a gentleman capable of rough violence. The stories are written by some of the detective-mystery genre's leading lights, including: Max Allan Collins, Sara Paretsky, Roger L. Simon, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Robert Crais, Edward Hoch, Ed Gorman, Eric Van Lustbader, Loren Estleman, Simon Brett, and Joyce Harrington. The final story in the volume is Raymond Chandler's last Marlowe adventure: The Pencil. The stories run chronologically through the career of Marlowe, from 1935 through 1960. These are classic Marlowe tales of betrayal, mistrust, and double-dealing on the seamy side of Los Angeles..… (more)
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I like the chance to see so many contemporary writers interpreting Marlowe’s character in their own way. Some are a bit heavy-handed with the famous hard-boiled writing style, but some (such as Simon Brett) are quite clever and witty. A few downplay it entirely to focus on Marlowe’s character and situation. What they all do effectively is work with Marlowe’s character, placing him in different settings and times to see how he would resolve a problem. These Marlowes, like Chandler’s Marlowe, often make intuitive jumps without much real detective work, but that’s because they are not so much about working out a mystery, as working out a situation with toughness and honour.
Also quite interesting are the comments in the author’s notes after their contribution. They describe how they see Chandler’s influence (or lack of influence) on them as writers of detective stories and what they think Chandler achieved. The diversity of their impressions builds a portrait of Chandler’s influence on writing that is quite revealing and diverse, from Sara Paretsky whose reaction was to try to find a more rounded role for a woman character to Paco Ignacio Taibo who adopted a gritty neorealism as an appropriate alternative to Latin magic realism.
The overwhelming sense, of course, is one of futility in conflict with a deep personal honour. Coming out of the Depression, the world war and the Cold War, it’s easy to see how American (and other) readers would recognize the sense of darkness and futility. But against that is the belief in the individual standing up to whatever comes, even at the risk of great personal cost. As one writer, Robert Campbell, suggests, it’s the American frontier cowboy reset in the gritty urban scene.
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Omslaget viser en lidt hårdkogt mandsperson
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
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