Un essential volume for lovers of today so fruitful genre noir. Hammett was the pioneer in what began as a subgenre back in the nascent 30s. This compilation is a wise success for all declared lovers of this best-selling genre to know that origin not so successful in its beginnings.
Post your Five novels was no bed of roses for Dashiell Hammett. There are those who assure that his creative resignation was due to the rejection of a society not entirely prepared for the explicitness of the macabre and the decadent. Scenes filled with unusual violence that connected with the most sordid and humiliating aspects of a society that expected a sublimation of its reality and not a still photo of the underworld of any city, with its corruptions included.
Of course, sex as a complement to the criminal setting adorned the narration, so the editors and the public abandoned this type of reading to minority spaces and specialized magazines that were sold on kiosks in their most hidden drawers. Despite this, the editions of his works reached large numbers, and they were lavished in editions, reissues and series.
However, the great literary legacy ended up emerging and, before the end of the XNUMXth century, all the work of Hammett and others like him ended up occupying a relevant space in the world of black on white.
The point is that all the prototypes, approaches, sketches and schemes of the current crime novel drink from this great author. So it was only fair to publish this volume.
The set, as I say, includes the five totem novels of the genre. Namely: Red Harvest, The curse of the Dain, the sublime The Maltese Falcon, The crystal key and El thin man.
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