| R. Chandler - The Big Sleep Contributor(s): Badonnel, Patrick (Author), Maisonnat, Claude (Author) |
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ISBN: 2864602555 ISBN-13: 9782864602552 Publisher: Klincksieck OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback Language: French Published: October 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Physical Information: 112 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Big Sleep was published in 1939 and was immediately labelled as " hard-boiled ". TheNew Yorker described it as a " terrifying story of degeneracy in Southern California by an author who almost makes Dashiell Hammett seem as innocuous as Winnie-the-Pooh ". Chandler, much more than any other detective story-writer in America, has established a tradition of which leading contemporary writers like James Ellroy could be regarded as the inheritors. As W.H. Auden wrote: " Chandler is interested in writing, not detective stories, but serious studies of a criminal milieu, the Great Wrong Place, and his powerful but extremely depressing books should be read and judged, not as escape literature, but as works of art ". |
