Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Simple_Art_of_Murder> ?p ?o }
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder abstract "The Simple Art of Murder refers to hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler's critical essay, a magazine article, and his collection of short stories. The essay was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in December 1944. The magazine article appeared in the Saturday Review of Literature, April 15, 1950. The article, somewhat rewritten, served to introduce the collection The Simple Art of Murder, 1950 (Houghton Mifflin Co.), of eight of Chandler's early stories pre-dating his first novel, The Big Sleep.The essay is considered a seminal piece of literary criticism. Although Chandler's primary topic is the art (and failings) of detective fiction, he touches on general literature and modern society as well.The opening statement – \"Fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic\" – places Chandler in a lineage with earlier American Realists, in particular Mark Twain and his critique of James Fenimore Cooper, \"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses\". Chandler dissects A. A. Milne's The Red House Mystery much as Twain tears apart Cooper's The Deerslayer, namely by revealing what is ignored, brushed over, and unrealistic. \"If the situation is false,\" Chandler writes, \"you cannot even accept it as a light novel, for there is no story for the light novel to be about.\" He expands his criticism to the bulk of detective fiction, especially of the English variety which he complains is preoccupied with \"hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.\" In addition to Milne, Chandler confronts Dame Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, E. C. Bentley, and Freeman Wills Crofts. \"The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.\" Chandler's critique of the \"classic\" Golden Age detective story goes beyond a lack of realistic characters and plot; Chandler complains about contrivances and formulas and an inability to move beyond them. The classic detective story \"has learned nothing and forgotten nothing.\"Chandler reserves his praise for Dashiell Hammett. Although Chandler and Hammett were contemporaries and grouped as the founders of the hard-boiled school, Chandler speaks of Hammett as the \"one individual... picked out to represent the whole movement,\" noting Hammett's mastery of the \"American language\", his adherence to reality, and that he \"gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.\"Chandler concludes his essay by moving from reality in literature to reality itself, \"a world in which gangsters can rule nations and almost rule cities... it is not a fragrant world, but it is the world you live in.\" He states that this world requires the hero of Hammett's (and his own) fiction, a man who walks the \"mean streets\" with a sense of honor and a notion of justice, who neither wears them on his sleeve nor allows them to be corrupted.".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder author Raymond_Chandler.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder coverArtist Boris_Artzybasheff.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder dcc "813/.52 19".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder lcc "PS3505.H3224 S56 1988".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder literaryGenre Crime_fiction.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder literaryGenre Literary_criticism.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder oclc "17506654".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder publisher Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageExternalLink the-simple-art-of-murder.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageExternalLink display.pperl?isbn=9780394757650&view=excerpt.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageExternalLink chandlerart.html.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageID "945767".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageLength "5711".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageOutDegree "52".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageRevisionID "703755246".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink 1950_in_literature.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink A._A._Milne.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Agatha_Christie.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink American_English.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Arthur_Conan_Doyle.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Boris_Artzybasheff.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Category:1944_essays.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Category:1950_short_story_collections.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Detective_fiction_short_stories.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Essays_about_literature.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Houghton_Mifflin_books.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Short_story_collections_by_Raymond_Chandler.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Works_about_art_genres.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Works_originally_published_in_The_Atlantic_(magazine).
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Crime_fiction.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Curare.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Dashiell_Hammett.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Detective_fiction.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Dorothy_L._Sayers.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Duelling_pistol.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Edmund_Clerihew_Bentley.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Essay.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Fenimore_Coopers_Literary_Offenses.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Freeman_Wills_Crofts.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Geraldine_McEwan.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Golden_Age_of_Detective_Fiction.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Hardboiled.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink James_Fenimore_Cooper.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Leatherstocking_Tales.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Literary_criticism.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Literature.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Mark_Twain.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Miss_Marple.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Modernity.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Murder.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Random_House.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Raymond_Chandler.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Realism_(arts).
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Saturday_Review_(U.S._magazine).
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Short_story.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Television_film.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink The_Atlantic.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink The_Big_Sleep.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink The_Murder_at_the_Vicarage.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink The_New_York_Review_of_Books.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink The_Red_House_Mystery.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink Tropical_fish.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLink University_of_Texas_at_Austin.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageWikiLinkText "The Simple Art of Murder".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder author Raymond_Chandler.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder caption "First edition".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder congress "PS3505.H3224 S56 1988".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder country "United States".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder coverArtist Boris_Artzybasheff.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder dewey "813".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder genre Crime_fiction.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder genre Literary_criticism.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder language "English".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder mediaType "Print".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder name "The Simple Art of Murder".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder oclc "17506654".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder publisher Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder releaseDate "1950".
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Chandler.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Citation.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_book.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder subject Category:1944_essays.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder subject Category:1950_short_story_collections.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder subject Category:Detective_fiction_short_stories.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder subject Category:Essays_about_literature.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder subject Category:Houghton_Mifflin_books.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder subject Category:Short_story_collections_by_Raymond_Chandler.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder subject Category:Works_about_art_genres.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder subject Category:Works_originally_published_in_The_Atlantic_(magazine).
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder type Book.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder type Genre.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder type Work.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder type WrittenWork.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder type Book.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder type Book.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder type Collection.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder type Genre.
- The_Simple_Art_of_Murder type Redirect.