Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality

Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality
Fredric Jameson
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5 Jul 2022 UK
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9781784782184
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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 based on reconstructing both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler's invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a gigantic city built on deliberately ignoring nature, broken into a multitude of private worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum, an absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler, the thriller genre becomes metaphysical.
"Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction." Terry Eagleton "Not often in American writing since Henry James can there have been a mind displaying at once such tentativeness and force ... The best of Jameson's work has felt mind-blowing in the way of LSD or mushrooms: here before you is the world you'd always known you were living in, but apprehended as if for the first time in the freshness of its beauty and horror." Benjamin Kunkel, London Review of Books "Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today ... it can truly be said that nothing cultural is alien to him." Colin MacCabe "The most muscular of writers." Times Literary Supplement "A genuinely monumental work that I expect to be referring to for many years." (Praise for Valences of the Dialectic) Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? "Jameson thinks dialectically in the strong sense, in the way we are all supposed to think but almost no one does." London Review of Books "Jameson's skill in connecting diverse materials and theories, the suggestiveness of many of his insights and his passionate conviction make this an exciting book." Times Literary Supplement
FREDRIC JAMESON is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations, Representing Capital, Antinomies of Realism and Ancients and Postmoderns.
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ISBN-13: 9781784782184
Published: 5 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 96

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