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The Big Sleep
While not actually inventing the genre, The Big Sleep was a Noir breakthrough, and people have been copying it for the last 65 years, from Chinatown to LA Confidential to Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, the character of Philip Marlowe has been lampooned, homaged, and carbon-copied near unto death. And yet, the original somehow still stands, remarkably compelling, which is why many today count Chandler as one of the great fiction writers of the 20th century. He shows us an inhospitable world, and an inhospitable man in that world, who somehow becomes a figure of virtue and even heroism.
