Raymond Chandler : the detections of totality
Jameson, Fredric
Raymond Chandler : the detections of totality / Fredric Jameson - New York : Verso , 2016 - 87 p. ; 22 cm.
The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler's work based on reconstructing both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler's invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a gigantic city built on deliberately ignoring nature, broken into a multitude of private worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum, an absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler, the thriller genre becomes metaphysical.
English.
9781784782160
Chandler, Raymond (1888 - 1959) ---Criticism and interpretation
PS3505.H3224 / Z676 2016
813.52 JAM
Raymond Chandler : the detections of totality / Fredric Jameson - New York : Verso , 2016 - 87 p. ; 22 cm.
The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler's work based on reconstructing both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler's invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a gigantic city built on deliberately ignoring nature, broken into a multitude of private worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum, an absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler, the thriller genre becomes metaphysical.
English.
9781784782160
Chandler, Raymond (1888 - 1959) ---Criticism and interpretation
PS3505.H3224 / Z676 2016
813.52 JAM
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