Refugees from the Past
James Meek: Jameson on Chandler, 5 January 2017
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality
by Fredric Jameson.
Verso, 87 pp., £12.99, July 2016,978 1 78478 216 0 Show More
by Fredric Jameson.
Verso, 87 pp., £12.99, July 2016,
“... in these novels, they must be white and have a surname that is either Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Scandinavian or Celtic: Marlowe, Riordan, Sternwood, Ohls, Morgan, Conquest, Potter, Petersen, Haviland. A small number of characters with names that are vaguely Euro-Catholic are grudgingly brought into individual ... ”