LE GRAND SOMMEIL: UNE ENQUETE DU PRIVE PHILIP MARLOWE Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

ISBN 10: 2070431061 / ISBN 13: 9782070431069

Published by GALLIMARD, 1973

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: LE GRAND SOMMEIL: UNE ENQUETE DU PRIVE PHILIP MARLOWE Raymond Chandler
• Publisher: GALLIMARD
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 2070431061
• ISBN 13: 9782070431069
• Binding: Soft cover

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Synopsis

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man.This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay The Simple Act of Murder . Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep . This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual.