Re: RARA-AVIS: Philip Marlowe in "The Big Sleep"

James Rogers (jetan@ionet.net)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 14:20:22 -0500 (CDT) At 02:49 PM 9/30/98 EDT, Debbie Chilson wrote:
>I have been reading the works of Raymond Chandler--in particular, "The
>Big Sleep" and "The Long Good-Bye"--and have come to some conclusions
>about Philip Marlowe. I would like to throw these thoughts out to all
>of you in hopes that I might come to understand Chandler's work a little
>better. I am new to this list and to "hardboiled detective fiction, so
>I hope you will excuse me if I say anything that has already been said.
>
>
Well, I don't know if it has been mentioned on the list before, but
your analysis (which I snipped) is pretty much the standard lit-crit reading
of the book. Not that this makes it any less perceptive on your part, of course.

James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
Mundus Vult Decipi

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