In 1955, the Daily Express canvassed its readers for their favorite lowbrow, middlebrow and highbrow celebrities. Though he started out writing for pulp magazines, Chandler’s fiction eventually won an audience that defied categorization. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before.” If newness was what Chandler looked for, he must have been pleased with what he saw happening at his typewriter. As Chandler remarked, famously, of Dashiell Hammett, “ did … what only the best writers can ever do. Later in that manifesto, he compares its practitioners to Aeschylus and Shakespeare. “Fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic,” he wrote in 1940 in “The Simple Art of Murder,” and Chandler, who died in 1959, thought his genre stood as good a chance as any of getting reality right. Raymond Chandler had ambitions for the detective novel. Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep.
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