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25 de abr. de 1979 · James M. Cain es especialmente conocido por haber escrito dos novelas que han dado lugar a sendos clásicos del «cine negro». Una es Doble indemnización (1943), llevada al cine por Billy Wilder ...
9 de feb. de 2020 · Though Cain was writing the novel in the mid-1970s and setting the story in 1960, the book feels woefully disconnected from its time. Women still talk about having a pregnancy “taken care of” but won’t use the word abortion; people still get their news primarily from the radio. Even Cain’s prose feels dusty and archaic.
1 de jul. de 2019 · It remains to this day one of the classics of 20th century American literature, and one of the very best exemplars of the power and the potential of crime writing, though Cain would always insist that he didn’t think of his books as crime novels or noirs, but rather as love stories. That’s the power of his work, after all.
6 de dic. de 1985 · James M. Cain is the third member of the trio who had such enormous influence, not only on the writing of detective fiction, on film and the way America was viewed. Like Chandler and Hammett, Cain wrote about crime, but unlike them he wrote from the point of view of the criminal and with a sense of bitter, even savage realism which is entirely his own.
James M. Cain. James M. Cain (Annapolis (), 1 juli 1892 – University Park (), 27 oktober 1977) was een Amerikaans romanschrijver, scenarist en journalist.Hij was een van de bekendste schrijvers van hard-boiledromans, waarvan er verschillende verfilmd werden.. Biografie. James Mallahan Cain debuteerde in 1934 met The Postman Always Rings Twice, een voortreffelijk voorbeeld van de onder ...
James M. Cain wrote some of the grittiest novels in American literature, including such classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce. James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker is a critical overview of the author's life, work, and legacy. An updated and expanded edition of two of David Madden's scholarly works on Cain, this new book improves upon the previous ...
James M. Cain was an American novelist as well as journalist. He composed in the genre of crime fiction. He is acknowledged as being one of the many creators when it comes to ‘roman noir’. Cain was born on July 1, 1892 in Annapolis, Maryland. His family was Irish Catholic and his parents were an opera singer and an educator.
