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"
发表于2024-05-03
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長眠不醒,何其浪漫。錢德勒就是有這種本事為每部作品起一個滿有詩意的名字。 或許每個人心裡都曾經有過這樣的念頭 - 蓋上雙眼,但願從此長睡不醒。可惜每次都事與願違,說到底還是放不下。 世事百態,複雜如許,能看穿,能看破的又有幾人? 從前征戰沙場的猛將,如今垂垂老...
评分 评分 评分将钱德勒的《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...
评分放大镜、烟斗、安乐椅,提及欧美的侦探小说,人们心中往往会浮现出这三件物品。作为古典推理派的经典装备,影响之大,以至于人们在今天的背景下对原著翻拍时,还会不自觉地把这些属于19世纪的元素添加进去。 然而,当福尔摩斯、波洛、布朗神父这一个个出身高贵的睿智头脑,在卷...
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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
2010.9.2 不知道是念书的人的声音太低沉还是怎么的,故事不是特别激动人心。悬念也不算特别惊人。情节比较紧张。与其说是推理玄疑,还不如说是动作惊怵。最大的亮点是dialogue,拍电影应该帅极了。
评分下次还是选难度低的情节比较明显的英文小说看,,,/(ㄒoㄒ)/ 拆开来单个单个的句子还是很有味道
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评分第一次看雷蒙德·錢德勒的作品,與預期中相去甚遠,所謂「硬漢派」,大意就是摒棄精密的推理,用強硬直接的手段解決問題和揭露真相吧,蘿蔔青菜,各有所愛,這種更像東野圭吾「社會派」的風格實在不是我所喜歡的,3顆星
评分真喜欢他的比喻~
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