The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism.
With The Big Sleep , published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel.
Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler's work that reconstructs both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it project.
Verso Raymond chandler: the detections of totality, hardcover/fredric jameson
