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Thursday, 17 May 2018

Corruption of the City


          ...... 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.

from online introduction to
War Noir
Sarah Trott
2016
                                   http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1990

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