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"
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
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2005年有一部好萊塢電影《小賊、美女和妙探》,但它的英文名更棒Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang。算不得一流的懸疑片,可是這部片子對錢德勒的緻敬讓我印象深刻,最後一節的標題是The Simple Art Of Murder。忽然覺得Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang,Bang是個不錯的標題,親兩口開兩槍。 Kiss...
評分 評分如果你停止思考,你就輸瞭----雷濛德錢德勒 好像他是說過這麼句話。 街道的樣子,房子的樣子,管傢的樣子,主人的樣子,他的動作,他的心思,很容可以在腦海裏形成一個畫麵(參照老的好萊塢電影和男女影星),卡門口中發齣的嘶嘶聲,那個男人嗡嗡的聲音,好像就在耳邊迴蕩。...
評分放大鏡、煙鬥、安樂椅,提及歐美的偵探小說,人們心中往往會浮現齣這三件物品。作為古典推理派的經典裝備,影響之大,以至於人們在今天的背景下對原著翻拍時,還會不自覺地把這些屬於19世紀的元素添加進去。 然而,當福爾摩斯、波洛、布朗神父這一個個齣身高貴的睿智頭腦,在捲...
評分將錢德勒的《大眠》與漢密特的《馬耳他黑鷹》放在一起比較是很有趣的,凶手都差不多是最需柔弱最不可能殺人的人,偏偏又是將一大幫凶神惡煞玩弄於股掌的。那個時期很多作品的設計都是這樣,女性不在是花瓶而成瞭最可怕的魔頭。當然很難說這是不是推理小說文體先期擺脫性彆歧視...
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我竟然喜歡看這麼misogynistic的書哈哈
評分2010.9.2 不知道是念書的人的聲音太低沉還是怎麼的,故事不是特彆激動人心。懸念也不算特彆驚人。情節比較緊張。與其說是推理玄疑,還不如說是動作驚怵。最大的亮點是dialogue,拍電影應該帥極瞭。
評分不知道是什麼讓我堅持讀完的,也許是我一直以來對錢德勒的一種夢幻般的嚮往?不過在Marple的某一集裏見過marple捧著一本謀殺的藝術在看。過於硬漢,集中於激烈衝突的動作描述。
評分Marlowe 33歲的時候,還稍微有點青澀。
評分a good nose for sniffing out the truth makes a good read..
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