Blonde in the lake. Sis. A long goodbye. Reverse
19.99 €
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Blonde in the lake. Sis. A long goodbye. Reverse
19.99 €
Raymond Chandler's books about Philip Marlowe not only laid the foundations of the genre of "cool" detective, but also became a modern classic in the broadest sense. "Raymond Chandler is the original stylist, and his hero Philip Marlowe is as immortal as Sherlock Holmes," wrote the venerable Anthony Burgess. This edition contains the final four (of seven) novels about the famous private investigator - "Blonde in the Lake", "Sis", "The Long Goodbye" and "Reverse". Marlowe represents a new type of detective hero: he is a romantic, sentimental knight, always preserving his individuality and observing the code of honor. He is not looking for adventure - they themselves find it, and the plot, replete with trademark dizzying dizzying intricacies, begins, as a rule, quite innocent. So in "Blonde in the Lake" director of a large perfume company instructs Marlowe to find a runaway from the country house wife, in "Sis" naive hick from Manhattan, Kansas, begs the detective to find her missing brother in Los Angeles; in "The Long Goodbye," Marlowe finds himself under police harassment after he won't refuse to help a friend in desperate need; and in "The Reversal," he is assigned to follow one Eleanor King as she arrives on the "Super Chief" express from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles.... Several benchmark noir films have been set to Chandler's plots, and for many, Marlowe's image is firmly associated with Humphrey Bogart's personality. "Blonde in the Lake" was screened in 1946 by Robert Montgomery, who himself played the lead role, and it was one of the first films in world cinema, from start to finish shot with a subjective camera. A screen adaptation of "Sisterhood" starring James Garner was released in 1969 under the title "Marlowe"; it was this film by Paul Bogart that first introduced American audiences to Bruce Lee. "The Long Goodbye" was brought to the screen in 1973 by Robert Altman, starring Elliott Gould, and the screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett, who had collaborated with William Faulkner on "Eternal Sleep", a classic adaptation of the first novel about Marlowe, directed by Howard Hawks in 1946.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Foreign Literature. Detective classics