Raymond Chandler and the American Hard-Boiled School

Abstract

The bachelor thesis is concerned with Raymond Chandler and the American Hard-Boiled School. The first chapters of the thesis describe life of the American author of detective novels and his work and define terms such as detective fiction or the American Hard-Boiled School. A detailed analysis of Chandler's two books, The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, forms the core of the thesis. The analysis is focused on the individual aspects of the detective Chandler created, detective Philip Marlowe. The fourth chapter deals with the connection between Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Shakespeare's Hamlet. The fifth chapter is concerned with film noir and the film adaptations of The Big Sleep. The sixth chapter covers the summary of my findings.