Hammet D Crime Stories and Other Writing 9781931082006

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Автор: Hammet D
Название: Crime Stories and Other Writing
Перевод названия: Детективы
ISBN: 9781931082006
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация:
ISBN-10: 1931082006
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 934
Вес: 0.635 кг.
Дата издания: October 1, 2001
Язык: English
Размер: 20.68 x 13.72 x 3.12
Поставляется из: США
Описание: In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In this volume, The Library of America collects the finest of these stories: twenty-four in all, along with some revealing essays and an earlier version of his novel The Thin Man.

Mixing melodramatic panache and poker-faced comedy, a sensitivity to place and a perceptive grasp of social conflict, Hammetts stories are hard-edged entertainments for an era of headlong change and extravagant violence. For the heroic sagas of earlier eras Hammett substituted the up-tempo, devious, sometimes nearly nihilistic exploits of con men and blackmailers, fake spiritualists and thieving politicians, slumming socialites and deadpan assassins.

As a guide through this underworld he created the Continental Op, the nameless, laconic detective, world-weary and unblinking, who serves as protagonist of most of these stories. The deliberately unheroic Op is separated only by his code of professionalism from the brutality and corruption that run rampant in stories such as Zigzags of Treachery, Dead Yellow Women, Fly Paper, and $106,000 Blood Money.

Hammetts years of experience as a Pinkerton detective give even his most outlandishly plotted mysteries a gritty credibility, and his intimate knowledge of San Francisco made him the perfect chronicler of that citys waterfronts, back alleys, police stations, and luxury hotels. By connecting crime fiction to the realities of American streets and American speech, his Black Mask stories opened up new vistas for generations of writers and readers.
Дополнительное описание: Кол-во стр.: 934
Формат: 203 x 133
Дата издания: 2001
Страна : USA
Вес: 635
Серия : The Library of America, 125

Crime Stories and Other Writing, Hammet D