Raymond Chandler

Biography

Chandler was born with Chicago in the Illinois in 1888, but moved in Great Britain in 1895 at the time of the divorce of his/her parents. It entered to the Dulwich College in 1900 and was naturalized English in 1907 to be able to pass the examination of the civil service. It makes a success of this examination and worked during one year with the British Admiralty. It published its first poem at that time. After having left the civil service, Chandler worked as freelance journalist and continued to write poetries of style " romantic tardif".

Chandler returned to the United States in 1912 and was formed to be an accountant. In 1917, it engaged in the Canadian army and fought in France. After the Armistice, it settled with Los Angeles and began a connection with an older woman (Cissy Pascal) whom it married thereafter. In 1932, Chandler had become vice-president of Dabney Oil Syndicate to Signal Hill in California but it lost this lucrative work because of its alcoholism.

He only learned how to write pulp S to try to earn his living by his artistic talents. Its first history was published in Black Mask in 1933. Its first novel The Big Sleep was published in 1939.

Following the success of its novels, Chandler worked as scenario writer for Hollywood, in particular with Billy Wilder on the novel of James Mr. Cain Double Indemnity (1944) and writing its only original screenplay The Blue Dahlia (1946).

Cissy died in 1954 and Chandler started again with drinking. The quality of its writing felt some and it tried to commit suicide in 1955. he died of Pneumonie in 1959.

Works

Novels

the big sleep ( The Big Sleep , 1939), translated by Boris Vian
Good-bye my pretty ( Farewell, My Lovely , 1940)
the Large window ( The High Window , 1942)
the Lady of the lake ( The Lady in the Lake , 1943) translated by Boris and Michele Vian
Do not make your rosière ( The Little Sister , 1949)
On an air of navaja ( The Long Goodbye , 1954)
Charade for collapsed ( Playback , 1958)
Marlowe moves in ( Poodle Springs , 1959) (Romance unfinished; completed by Robert B. Parker in 1989)

All these novels are investigations of a private detective of Los Angeles named Philip Marlowe.

Collections of News

the jade of Mandarin
a killer under the rain
the troubles it is my problem

Adaptations to the cinema

Almost all its novels were adapted to the cinema. Hollywood adopts the character of Philip Marlowe as hero emblematic of black film of the Forties.

Adieu my pretty adapted to the cinema in 1944 by Edward Dmytryk
the Big sleep , adapted to the cinema in 1946 by Howard Hawks with Humphrey Bogart in the role of Philip Marlowe
the Lady of the lake adapted to the cinema in 1947 by Robert Montgomery
The Long Goodbye adapted to the cinema in 1973 by Robert Altman ( Private the )
Adieu my pretty adapted to the cinema in 1975 by Dick Richards

Bonds

All translations in French
Raymond Chandler' S Shamus Town a history of Los Angeles via the places where the supplier of Raymond lived and wrote approximately, 1912-1946.

Beats-smg: Raimonds Čandleris

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