Saturday at Zenda. Saturday of contemporary classics. On this Saturday, a focus on The Lady in the Lake, the fourth work American writer and screenwriter Raymond Chandler (Chicago, 1888 – La Jolla, California, 1959) dedicated to his star character: the detective Philip Marlowe. The novel appeared in 1943, continuing the publication pace Chandler had established since 1939, when he released his debut novel, The Big Sleep, which also marked the introduction of Marlowe. The key of The Lady in the Lake lies in the deepening of the detective’s character and his obsessive relationship with the truth, an entity always elusive and changing. The book, with translation into Spanish handled by Juan Manuel Ibeas Delgado and Carmen Criado Fernández, forms part of the catalogue of the publishing house DeBolsillo.
The publisher notes, about the book:
“«No one ever looked less like Lady Macbeth»,
thinks Philip Marlowe when Orfamay Quest, a small Kansas girl with a demure appearance, asks him to locate her brother Orrin.
Throughout the investigation, Marlowe uncovers the sinister, ruthless, and squalid side of Hollywood: the reflection of the miseries of a world far from the glamour of the stars that Chandler knew very well.
The nod to the author’s own experience makes The Little Sister, his fifth novel, the most twilight book of the series and in which a Marlowe who is more disenchanted, taciturn, and cynical than ever appears.
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Author: Raymond Chandler. Translation: César Aira. Title: The Little Sister. Publisher: DeBolsillo. Seller: Todos tus libros.