Marlowe is, of course, the most famous creation of Raymond Chandler, perhaps the most famous of American crime novelists.
On the one hand, there is his glorious writing, his blue-collar heroes and the occasional profound observations about the human experience.
It takes a strong stomach to read a story in which a woman needs a slap to calm her down.
Crime fiction was, and is, anti-feminist.
Chandler may have been a misogynist, but he definitely lived in misogynist times, and his fiction reflects that.
Persons:
”, Philip Marlowe, Marlowe, Raymond Chandler, Reading Chandler, there’s, Sara Paretsky, Marcia Talley, Mary Wings, Val McDermid, Chandler, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Vladimir Lenin, that’s
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