He was VERY conscious of what literature is and what place he aspired to in it. Someday somebody’s going to make ‘literature’ out of it. But he does describe himself so: I'm one of the few people moderately literate who take the detective story seriously. And am not sure you have to read every word of the “Faerie Queen” or “Paradise Lost” to get the idea. Hyper-interpretation is just the bath water and it being there is our human condition: we are all babies trying not to drown in all the bullshit and confusion which is being churned out at a prodigious rate.I too do not know what Hammett read or not. And I'll just stick with my babies in the bath water cliché there is a lot of silly nonsense out there, but there is great thought too. And as a disclaimer I often have NO idea what they are talking about. I don't always agree with them but I enjoy them. Send you an email message telling you why.(Original Review, )Perhaps my deep, identity creating, connections to Germany has made me more open to their critical ideas, and to the effect those ideas have had in the US for the last 50 years. If we decide not to incorporate your report, we will usually Most reports are processed within a few days of submission.To a printed copy, please include the edition you used.

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If the contents of theīook, please be as precise as you can as to the location. Please be clear in your message, if you are referring to the informationįound on this web page or the contents of the book. mobi file on your mobile device, please use. Although his short writing career included 5 novels, 54 short stories, 18 published collections of short stories and 4 screenplays, his most popular and memorable characters are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse).-Wikipedia. He is currently known as the dean of the “hard-boiled” school of detective fiction. Hammett wrote most of his fiction while living in San Francisco in the 1920’s using street locations and characters based on people he knew personally. As a young man he started his career at the Pinkerton Detective Agency as an operative.

Dashiell Hammett was an American author of detective crime fiction and short stories.

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