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War Noir - Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction (Hardcover)
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War Noir - Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction (Hardcover)
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The conflation of the hard-boiled style and war experience has
influenced many contemporary crime writers, particularly in the
traumatic aftermath of the Vietnam War. Yet, earlier writers in the
genre, such as Raymond Chandler, remain overlooked when it comes to
examining how their war experience affected their writing. Sarah
Trott corrects this oversight by examining Chandler alongside the
World War I writers of the Lost Generation as well as highlighting
a melding of very different styles in Chandler's work. 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. The sum of this work offers a new
understanding of how Chandler uses his war trauma, how that
experience established the traditional archetype of detective
fiction, and how this reading of his fiction enables Chandler to
transcend generic limitations and be recognized as a key
twentieth-century literary figure.
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