José Luis López Muñoz Książki

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.

Heralded as Woolf's greatest work of fiction, "Mrs. Dalloway" is not only a thorough rendering of a vivid human life, it is the outline on paper of human consciousness. In this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway readies her house for friends and neighbors as she is is flooded with remembrances of faraway times.

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.