EAN: 9781784782184

RAYMOND CHANDLER - FREDRIC JAMESON KARTONIERT (TB)

The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler  a
dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life  holds a unique place in literary history 
straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep  published in 1939  he left an
indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of
Chandler's work that reconstructs both the context in which it was written and the social world
or totality it projects. Chandler's invariable setting  Los Angeles  appears both as a
microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a megalopolis uniquely
distributed by an unpromising nature into a variety of distinct neighborhoods and private
worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum  an
absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler  the thriller genre becomes
metaphysical.

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