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War Noir: Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction

War Noir: Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction

Trott, Sarah

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1496808649
ISBN13: 9781496808646
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Sep 22 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Based on Chandler's experience in combat, Trott explains that the writer created detective Philip Marlowe not as the idealization of heroic individualism, as is commonly perceived, but instead as an authentic individual subjected to very real psychological frailties from trauma during the First World War. Inspecting Chandler's work and correspondence indicates that the characterization of the fictional Marlowe goes beyond the traditional chivalric readings and can instead be interpreted as a genuine representation of a traumatized veteran in American society. Substituting the horror of the trenches for the corruption of the city, Chandler formed a disillusioned protagonist in an uncaring America. Chandler did so with the sophistication necessary to straddle genre fiction and canonical literature.

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