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Vigyázat! Cselekményleírást tartalmaz.

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.

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1934

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Orion, London, 2005
116 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780752864365
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Vintage, London, 1989
128 oldal · ISBN: 9780679723257
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Pan Books, London, 1981
128 oldal · ISBN: 9780330263122

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James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice

A fülszöveg szerint Camus erről mintázta az Idegent és valóban van némi hasonlóság Frank és Meursault között, főleg hangulatban és írásmódban, de nekem eleinte főleg a Gépnarancs eleji Alexet juttatta eszembe.

Mindenesetre érdekes történet, és bár van ebből a fajtából sokkal jobb is, érdemes elolvasni.


Népszerű idézetek

NessaLaura>!

It's not how long it lasts. It's what you do while you're in there.

Chapter 11

NessaLaura>!

Next thing I knew, I was down there with her, and we were staring in each other's eyes, and locked in each other's arms, and straining to get closer. Hell could have opened for me then, and it wouldn't have made any difference. I had to have her, if I hung for it.
I had her.

Chapter 8

NessaLaura>!

„Did you say you weren't really a hell cat?”
„I said it, and I mean it. I'm not what you think I am, Frank. I want to work and be something, that's all. But you can't do it without love. Do you know that, Frank? Anyway, a woman can't. Well, I've made one mistake. And I've got to be a hell cat, just once, to fix it. But I'm not really a hell cat, Frank.”

Chapter 3

NessaLaura>!

„Is that the only reason you came back?”
„No. It's you and me. There's nobody else. I love you, Cora. But love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.”
„So you hate me?”
„I don't know. But we're telling the truth, for once in our life. That's part of it. You got to know it. And what I was lying here thinking, that's the reason. Now you know it.”

Chapter 15

NessaLaura>!

„You know what I wanted when the lights went out? Just you, Frank. I wasn't any hell cat at all, then. I was just a little girl, afraid of the dark.”
„I was there, wasn't I?”
„I loved you for it. If it hadn't been for you, I don't know what would have happened to us.”

Chapter 5

NessaLaura>!

„Tomorrow night, if I come back, there'll be kisses. Lovely ones, Frank. Not drunken kisses. Kisses with dreams in them. Kisses that come from life, not death.”
„It's a date.”

Chapter 15

NessaLaura>!

What did she have that makes me feel that way about her? I don't know. She wanted something, and she tried to get it. She tried all the wrong ways, but she tried. I don't know what made her feel that way about me, because she knew me. She called it on me plenty of times, that I wasn't any good. I never really wanted anything, but her. But that's a lot. I guess it's not often that a woman even has that.

Chapter 16

NessaLaura>!

There's a guy in No. 7 that murdered his brother, and says he didn't really do it, his subconscious did it. I asked him what that meant, and he says you got two selves, one that you know about and the other that you don't know about, because it's subconscious. It shook me up. Did I really do it, and not know it? God Almighty, I can't believe that! I didn't do it! I loved her so, then, I tell you, that I would have died for her! To hell with the subconscious. I don't believe it. It's just a lot of hooey, that this guy thought up so he could fool the judge. You know what you're doing, and you do it. I didn't do it, I know that. That's what I'm going to tell her, if I ever see her again.

Chapter 16

NessaLaura>!

„Oh, my God, Frank, isn't there any other way out for us than that?”
„Well. You were going to stick a knife in him just now.”
„No. That was for me, Frank. Not him.”
„Cora, it's in the cards. We've tried every other way out.”
„I can't have no greasy Greek child, Frank. I can't, that's all. The only one I can have a child by is you. I wish you were some good. You're smart, but
you're no good.”
„I'm no good, but I love you.”
„Yes, and I love you.”

Chapter 6


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