Raymond Chandler, in The Simple Act of Murder, pays due homage to Hammett: ‘He gave murder back to the kind of people who commit it for reasons,’ he said. ‘Not just to provide a corpse.’ And in the same essay he goes on to describe the newer modernist hero:
. . . down [...]
In this short novel, Clarice Lispector narrates the life of Macabéa, a girl from the North East of Brazil, recently arrived in the red light district of Rio de Janeiro. The novel, a writers’ novel if ever there was one, is a compassionate feminist study of an alienated and marginalized girl who has no imperative [...]
Janet was more settled when he got back home. Ralph had gone out and the house was quiet for the rest of the day. In the afternoon they took Echo for a walk around the university grounds, and in the early evening while Janet was getting her ready for bed, Geordie went to talk to [...]
‘It’s not working,’ Geordie said. ‘You were right, what you said about Janet and Ralph and me and Echo all living in the same house. It doesn’t work.’
Sam sighed. ‘What’re you doing about it?’
‘Dunno. I just know it’s not working. That’s the stage I’ve come to. The first stage. Now I know that, I’ll go [...]
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