The Big Sleep

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published just seven full novels during his lifetime (though an eighth in progress at his death was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been realized into motion pictures, some several times. In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died on March 26, 1959, in La Jolla, California.Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. Chandler's Philip Marlowe, along with Hammett's Sam Spade, are considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective," both having been played on screen by Humphrey Bogart, whom many considered to be the quintessential Marlowe.Some of Chandler's novels are considered to be important literary works, and three are often considered to be masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953). The Long Goodbye is praised within an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery"

出版者:Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

作者:Raymond Chandler

页数:231

出版时间:1988-7-12

价格:USD 15.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780394758282

图书标签:RaymondChandler英文原版侦探推理小说美国外国文学Raymond_Chandler

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When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

"Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence."

--Ross Macdonald

读后感

将钱德勒的《大眠》与汉密特的《马耳他黑鹰》放在一起比较是很有趣的，凶手都差不多是最需柔弱最不可能杀人的人，偏偏又是将一大帮凶神恶煞玩弄于股掌的。那个时期很多作品的设计都是这样，女性不在是花瓶而成了最可怕的魔头。当然很难说这是不是推理小说文体先期摆脱性别歧视...  

将钱德勒的《大眠》与汉密特的《马耳他黑鹰》放在一起比较是很有趣的，凶手都差不多是最需柔弱最不可能杀人的人，偏偏又是将一大帮凶神恶煞玩弄于股掌的。那个时期很多作品的设计都是这样，女性不在是花瓶而成了最可怕的魔头。当然很难说这是不是推理小说文体先期摆脱性别歧视...  

用户评价

hard-boiled硬汉侦探小说典范：冷雨长街，风衣礼帽，金发美女冷艳香唇多情人;酒馆旅社，烈酒香烟，硬汉侦探夺命手枪无情种。

真是既文艺又硬汉……案件在其次，真正动人的是那种气氛、腔调和语言的掌握。一根香烟、一杯威士忌、一顶软帽、飘着细雨的洛杉矶。还有那些比喻，哦我是有多爱那些比喻，"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts." 有趣、随性却又精巧，正如全书，让人有种不得不爱的魅力。PS：Philip Marlowe和RDJ在TSD里的形象真是神契合（捂心口

我竟然喜欢看这么misogynistic的书哈哈

这本里的明喻简直写神了。但看霍克斯的《夜长梦多》第二遍了，情节都没跟上。

硬汉侦探小说，很硬很酷。抄几句： If you want to pick lead out of your belly, get in my way. P64 -------- "You are broke, eh?" "I been shaking to nickles together for a month, trying to get them to mate." P83 -------- A gray Plymouth sedan tailed me away from the City Hall. I gave it a chance to catch up with me on a quiet street. It refused the offer, so I shook i