James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892–October 27, 1977) was an American journalist and novelist. Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labeling, he is usually associated with the hard-boiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the creators of the "roman noir."
He was born into an Irish Catholic family in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of a prominent educator and an opera singer. He inherited his love for music from his mother, but his high hopes of starting a career as a singer himself were thwarted when she told him that his voice was not good enough.
After graduating from Washington College where his father, James W. Cain served as president, in 1910, he began working as a journalist for The Baltimore Sun.
He was drafted into the United States Army and spent the final year of World War I in France writing for an Army magazine. On his return to the United States he continued working as a journalist, writing editorials for the New York World and articles for American Mercury. He also served briefly as the managing editor of The New Yorker, but later turned to screenplays and finally to fiction.
Although Cain spent many years in Hollywood working on screenplays, his name only appears on the credits of three films, Algiers, Stand Up and Fight, and Gypsy Wildcat.
His first novel (he had already published Our Government in 1930), The Postman Always Rings Twice was published in 1934. Two years later the serialized, in Liberty Magazine, Double Indemnity was published.
He made use of his love of music and of the opera in particular in at least three of his novels: Serenade (about an American opera singer who loses his voice and who, after spending part of his life south of the border, re-enters the States illegally with a Mexican prostitute in tow), Mildred Pierce (in which, as part of the subplot, the only daughter of a successful businesswoman trains as an opera singer) and Career in C Major (a short semi-comic novel about the unhappy husband of an aspiring opera singer who unexpectedly discovered that he has a better voice than she does).
He continued writing up to his death at the age of 85. His last three published works, The Baby in the Icebox (1981), Cloud Nine (1984) and The Enchanted Isle (1985) being published posthumously. However, the many novels he published from the late 1940s onward never quite rivaled his earlier successes.
An amoral young tramp.A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband.A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir . It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger .
这本曾被选为二十世纪百部最佳的英语小说,取材一起真实的谋杀案。一个汽车旅馆的老板(希腊人),被自己的妻子伙同情夫(旅店雇员)谋杀。小说的情节略为夸张,角色怪诞有趣。爱害人是那种幸运儿和糊涂虫的合体,第一次谋杀竟然没能把他杀死,也没能引起他的警觉。第二次谋杀...
评分 评分《邮差总按两遍铃》:人性之美胜过凶杀之举 范典/文 作家有很多种,其中有一类是“一本书作家”,就是凭着一本书让全世界人民记住了名字,像《飘》的作者玛格丽特•米切尔,《杀死一只知更鸟》的作者哈珀•李,乃至举世闻名的《红楼梦》作者曹雪芹先生,并非他们只写过...
评分我看见你了,我一定要把你搞到手,我跟你相爱了,我们就是去杀人也要在一起,我们终于在一起了,你却死了,然后我也得死。 这就是当年的超级畅销小说,詹姆斯•M•凯恩的《邮差总按两次铃》。语言平实,近乎白描,倒也符合内容——人物目的明确,行动直达欲望中心...
James M Cain发表于1934年的以凶手作为第一人称叙事的黑色风格犯罪小说,载誉甚多也攻讦甚多。评论认为他开创了美国黑色犯罪小说的风潮,也认为此书渲染了暴力情色,甚至一度成为禁书。小说面世以来,非常畅销,先后改编过几部电影。我只看过Jack Nicholson,Jessica Lange主演的1981年版本。这个版本的电影和原著小说有点出入,对情色的展现比较直观暴露,对男女主人公的爱情描述有点含糊不清。这和原著小说是相反的。最后要提一下,作者是个标题党,这个故事通篇和“邮差”无关,至于为什么会取这样的标题,有几种说法,比较广为认可的就是这是一个命运的暗喻,邮差总会按两次铃,确保你会听到,不会错过,就好像法律的制裁。
评分比中文版冷硬了好多!!
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评分Square one: 再高的山,也不过如此。
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