![]() ![]() He was naturalised as a British citizen in 1907 to take the Civil Service exam. ![]() He grew up in England and lived there together with his mother, grandmother and aunt. Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 23 in 1888. ![]() In the conclusion the question whether a private eye like Marlowe is more realistic than a traditional private eye like Sherlock Holmes will be considered. Therefore the private eye Philip Marlowe, main character of the story, will be analysed. Language is an important medium for writers and this work will exemplary survey the use of language as a violent medium in the novel The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. Writers like Dashiell Hammet (1894-1961) or Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) created a new stereotype of a typical American investigator and started to integrate social, psychological and political elements in their novels. Watson created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) and Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple created by Agatha Christie.Ī reaction of the rise of British detective fiction was the so called American hard-boiled school, as well known as “noir” fiction. Famous classical private-eyes in literature are Sherlock Holmes and Dr. IntroductionĬrime fiction became accepted as a serious genre only after 1900, but the roots go back to the early 19th century and to Edgar Allan Poe, who chose a kind of detective as the central character of a short story and therefore provided a kind of structural model in 1849. ![]()
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