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Archive of The History of Forgetting

    Fredric Jameson
    25 August 2016
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    Real Qualities of the Microcosm: Raymond Chandler in Los Angeles, USA

    The Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler was an unstructured city, and the social types are here nowhere near as pronounced. By the chance of a historical accident, Chandler was able to benefit from the survival of a purely linguistic, typological way of creating his characters after the system of types that had supported it was already disappearing
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