José Luis López Muñoz Books

Un nuevo caso llega a las manos de Philip Marlowe: ha de encontrar a la novia de un matón recién salido de la cárcel. Aun cuando cree que el encargo es de poca monta, las cosas se complican cuando la joven decide casarse con un anciano cargado de millones. Muertes violentas y policías corruptos de Los Ángeles se cruzarán en su camino, así como los inolvidables Malloy el gigante, Geiger el pornógrafo y Velma Valente. Fue llevada al cine y Robert Mitchum encarnó al investigador.

London, at the end of the First World War, basks in the summer heat, and Clarissa - Mrs Dalloway - prepares for one of her charming evening parties. Yet as the evening approaches, the unexpected arrival from India of her first lover Peter Walsh, triggers vivid memories of the past until, piece by piece, Clarissa brings to the surface the story of her life, of childhood dreams, and the row so many years ago that precipitated her uneventful marriage. She is suddenly and startlingly aware of the force of life going on around her; of Septimus Warren Smith going quietly mad with shell-shock; of her daughter Elizabeth, almost now a woman, and of Peter, unaltered, yet changed as she feels herself to be. In 'Mrs Dalloway', Virginia Woolf reveals the differences in the way people think and see and treat one another, brilliantly evoking the feel of the time and, through the eyes of each character, the feel of life itself.

Set just before World War I the story chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham, the soldier to whom the title refers, and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a literary technique that formed part of the author's pioneering view of literary impressionism. Ford employs the device of the unreliable narrator to great effect as the main character gradually reveals a version of events that is quite different from what the introduction leads the reader to believe.