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» 77 more Best Crime Fiction (10) Favourite Books (222) Books Read in 2014 (44) A Novel Cure (75) Books Read in 2017 (339) Page Turners (13) Cerebral Mysteries (16) Top Five Books of 2015 (236) Folio Society (238) Top Five Books of 2017 (228) Top Five Books of 2014 (690) 1,001 BYMRBYD Concensus (111) Top Five Books of 2016 (506) SHOULD Read Books! (25) First Novels (47) Fiction For Men (14) Read (48) Urban Fiction (31) Read These Too (42) Overdue Podcast (319) MysteryCAT 2014 (6) Books Read in 2011 (107) My TBR (27) Protagonists - Men (23) Read (25) 1930s (9) Books in Riverdale (15) Books About Murder (130) Detective Stories (84) Murder Mysteries (4) Five star books (1,284) Unread books (952) No current Talk conversations about this book. Classic, Mt Rushmore of noir ( ![]() Per certi versi, per me la lettura de Il grande sonno è stata difficile. Se da una parte ho trovato il giallo coinvolgente e il personaggio di Philip Marlowe intrigante, dall'altro non ho potuto fare a meno di storcere il naso di fronte al sessismo del romanzo. Mi sono ripetuta che è sciocco applicare la mia sensibilità del 2014 a un libro pubblicato nel 1939, ma non sono riuscita a convincermi. Che posso dire a mia discolpa? Sono un essere umano e non sempre reagisco con razionalità. Quindi il mio giudizio non è positivo come sarebbe stato altrimenti. Comunque sia, come dicevo all'inizio, il giallo è ben costruito ed è difficile per il lettore immaginare quale sia la soluzione del mistero finché Marlowe non ce la svela. Non guasta nemmeno lo sguardo attento del detective alle personalità con le quali deve avere a che fare. Mi è piaciuta anche l'ambientazione molto dark entro la quale si muovono i personaggi di Chandler: un mondo a tinte fosche dove senza compromessi non si va da nessuna parte e dove anche i “buoni” devono sapersi sporcare le mani. Absolutely archetypal and still a great read after 70 years. The prose is incredible, it's been mimicked so many times it should seem clichéd but it never does. Beautifully lean and effective, many a writer would have taken twice as many pages to tell the same tale. The Big Sleep (1939) (Marlowe #1) by Raymond Chandler. The first and very possibly the best of the seven Philip Marlowe novels. With this book Mr. Chandler took modern mystery fiction in a direction it had not yet seen. Here the hero is not a brilliant mind, pondering the clues to a mystery, smoking a pipe, discussing the case with a close comrade, or any of the other tropes that came before. Here is Marlowe, a singular being faced with his own limitations and ambitions. He has a past but that doesn’t matter very much. There is a future for him but he won’t dwell on that either. Instead he takes his moral code and goes out to slay the evil dragon, or perhaps only protect the beautiful dame in the case. When a rich man hires Marlowe to help with with family matters it is the start of a steep incline, throwing Marloe, and us, into a swirl of a mystery that even the author couldn’t figure out. But that is no matter as we are here for the scenery of the story, the display of characters and the unwavering dedication of Marlow himself. With this one book, to say nothing of the others, Mr. Chandler rewrote the story of the mystery, and all authors who followed him down this road owe him a debt that can only be repaid by writing honestly about their characters and their actions and fitting both into the reality of the world. I recently read this novel again. I concede dated and politically incorrect, however it is powerfully evocative.
Novela repleta de nervio y de ingeniosos diálogos. Es un caso de chantaje el que lleva a Marlowe a asomarse a las alcantarillas de una sociedad en apariencia espléndida. Belongs to SeriesPhilip Marlowe (1) Belongs to Publisher SeriesArion Press (19) Delfinserien (91) detebe (70/I) — 15 more El País. Serie negra (46) Penguin Books (652) SaPo (74) Den svarte serie (175) Vampiro (213) Zephyr Books (148) Is contained inRaymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America) by Raymond Chandler A Treasury of Great Mysteries by Howard Haycraft (indirect) The big sleep/Farewell my lovely/The high window/The lady in the lake/The long goodbye/Playback by Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window / The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback by Raymond Chandler Five Novels: Finger Man; The big sleep; Farewell my loveley; High window; The lady in the lake by Raymond Chandler Murder & Mayhem: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories; The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Human Factor; (Everyman's Library) by James M. Cain "Vechnyi son". "Prokrutka". "Nepriiatnosti - moe remeslo". "Chelovek, kotoryi liubil sobak". "Krovavyi veter". "Ispanskaia krov' ". "Prostoe iskusstvo ubiistva" by Chandler Reimond OBRAS SELECTAS - EL SUEÑO ETERNO - LA VENTANA ALTA - LA HERMANITA - EL LARGO ADIOS by Raymond Chandler Great Mystery Books, 10 Volumes (Journey into Fear, The 39 Steps, And Then There Were None, Maltese Falcon, The Nine Tailors, The Doorbell Rang, The Confidential Agent, The Big Sleep, Assignment in Brittany, The Daughter of Time) by Eric Ambler Club del misterio. Volumen I: Prólogo de J. J. BORGES. "El cuento policial, IX" . Dashiell HAMMETT: "Cosecha roja". Arthur CONAN DOYLE: "Las aventuras de Shrlock Holmes". Hellery QUEEN: "Cara a cara". Raymond CHANDLER: "El sueño eterno". Patricia IHGSMITH: Erle STANLEY GARDNER: "El cuchillo". "El caso del juguete mortífero". James HADLEY CHASE: "Impulso creador". "El secuestro de Miss Blandish". Nicholas BLAKE: "La bestia debe morir". Volumen 2: Prólogo de R. CHANDLER: " El simpl by AA.VV. (indirect) Has the (non-series) sequelHas the adaptationIs expanded inIs parodied inInspiredHas as a student's study guide
Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse ... No library descriptions found.
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