Shamus Town: LA, where Chandler lived, roamed & worked, 1912-46
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26 mai 2024 · Chandler talks about art, language, other writers, engages in frequent disputes with studios and agents and publishers, talks about America and Britain, and why literature needs to concern itself with emotion and beauty and not politics and plot and “social significance”.
11 mai 2024 · The final fortunate event and by far the most important catalyst for my reacquaintance with Raymond Chandler was a book review in which I referred to Chandler and his method of writing — his...
20 mai 2024 · The Big Sleep, classic hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1939. It was the first of seven novels to feature the famed detective Philip Marlowe. The story was filmed twice, in 1946 and 1978.
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Il y a 5 jours · Raymond Chandler and the Case of the Blue Dahlia. In 1945, when Paramount Pictures learns that their biggest star is heading off to war, they hire curmudgeonly crime writer Raymond Chandler to write a new movie in only one month.
Il y a 5 jours · Mosley’s plotting can be a bit hard to follow at times—much like the work of Raymond Chandler, whose detective character, Philip Marlowe, worked the mean streets of Los Angeles in the 1940s. As...
31 mai 2024 · Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective novel, “The Big Sleep,” has captured the imagination of readers for decades. This hard-boiled crime fiction masterpiece offers a glimpse into the seedy underbelly of 1930s Los Angeles through the eyes of the iconic private investigator Philip Marlowe.
18 mai 2024 · Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression.
