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A master of his craft

Look in the "Thrillers" section of any bookshop,

English or German, and you're sure

to find books by Raymond Chandler there.

Chandler, who died in 1959, wrote only

seven novels, but they became classics of

their kind.

The central character in all of them is Philip

Marlowe, a private detective who lives and

works in the Los Angeles area. One may

say that Marlowe is a typical American

hero: tough, honest, quick-witted, always

ready to risk his life for somebody who

suffers injustice. Marlowe is poor, because

Chandler believes it is impossible for a

decent man to become rich. He is, in a way,

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a failure. As Chandler writes in a letter: "I see him always in a lonely lonely rooms, puzzled but never quite defeated." And Marlowe is an idealist. Chandler's words: "He doesn't talk or behave like an idealist, but I think he heart; and I think he rather hates to admit it, even to himself."

Unlike his hero Philip Marlowe, who was born in Santa Rosa, California, Chandler was born in Chicago, Ilinois, in 1888. When his father left the mother took him to England to stay with her relatives in London. From 1905 he attended an English public school and then spent some time and Germany in order to learn the languages.

After various jobs in London and Los Angeles, and service in France during First World War, Chandler returned to the United States to live in southern where he eventualy became director of a number of oil companies. Fired his job for drinking, he turned to writing, publishing his first short story in 1939 he brought out his first novel, The Big Sleep. This and together with the film scripts he wrote for Holywood, made him America's leading writers.

His books were ideal material for films. The Big Sleep (Howard Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe, was one of the best films based on Chandler. For Chandler, Bogart was just the right actor to play Marlowe. can be tough without a gun," he wrote in a letter.

Together with his wife - they married in 1924 - Chandler lived a rather life. Perhaps for this reason he was a great letter writer. His "Selected Letters", hsi novesl and short storeis, show hmi as a master of the Amercian alnguage.

13В Грамматика

1. Придаточные определительные предложения с и без относительного

местоимения

a) Marlowe is a private detective who lives and works in the Los Angeles area.

Mapnoy - частный детектив, который живет и работает на территории

Лос-Анджелеса.

b) Chanler, who died in 1959, wrote only seven novels. Чандлер, который умер в

1959 году, написал всего семь романов.

c) The cause was ice falling in Balcombe Tunnel, which caused damage to equipment.

Причиной явился обвал льда в В.Т., что вызвало повреждение оборудования.

d) This and the novels that/which followed made him one of America's leading writers.

Этот и последовавшие за ним романы, сделали его одним из ведущих пи-

сателей Америки.

e) His novels and short stories, together with the film scripts (which/that) he wrote

for Hollywood, made him one of America's leading writers.

Его романы и рассказы, а также сценарии, которые он писал для Голливу-

да, сделали его одним из ведущих писателей Америки.

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Придаточные определительные предложения поясняют существительное или

группу слов с существительным (подчеркнуты и выделены жирным шрифтом в

примерах).

Определительное предложение может вводиться относительными местоимения-

ми who, which, that. При этом

who относится к лицам (а и Ь),

which - к предметам (с, d и е),

и that, как правило, тоже к предметам (d и е).

Определительные предложения могут соединяться с главным без введения отно-

сительного местоимения, особенно в тех случаях, когда в придаточном предло-

жении имеется собственное подлежащее (например, he в е).

Запятой отделяются те определительные предложения, которые содержат ин-

формацию, необходимую для понимания главного предложения или существи-

тельного, к которому относится придаточное предложение (Ь и с).

Описательные определительные предложения не могут вводиться местоимением

that; относительные местоимения не могут быть опущены в этих предложениях.

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