Per Hellgren

Swedish Marxist Noir

The Dark Wave of Crime Writers and the Influence of Raymond Chandler

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores and develops a theory of Swedish Marxist Noir. In order to expose the dialectics of crime fiction, going from then (the American 1930s) to now (the Swedish post-1990s), we must explore, through a Marxist reading of several central works of crime fiction, the Marxist connection between the writings of Raymond Chandler and the Swedish wave of crime fiction since the 1960s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781476673714
• ISBN-10: 1476673713
• Artikelnr.: 52425355

Autorenporträt

Journalist Per Hellgren is a contributor to Clues: A Journal of Detection. He lives in Strangnas, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Marxist Noir at the Gates 1.
A World Gone Wrong: Raymond Chandler 2.
The Accord: Per Wahlöö and Sjöwall-Wahlöö 3.
The Fall from Grace: Henning Mankell 4.
The Collapsed Dream: Stieg Larsson 5.
Excavating the Swedish Underbelly: Roslund & Hellström 6.
A Brave New Sweden: Jens Lapidus 7.
Sleuths of the Post-Political Condition: Arne Dahl 8.
The Age of the Manhunter: Lars Kepler Conclusion: The Dialectics of Crime Fiction Chapter Notes Works Cited Index