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AMERICAN STORIES - The Gatewood Caper1
By Dashiell Hammett
Broadcast: Saturday, August 06, 2005
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Introduce to "The Gatewood Caper"
"The Gatewood Caper" (1923) (also known as "Crooked2 Souls") has been filmed many times over the last twenty years as an episode of TV cop shows, without credit to Hammett. You have to wonder: when producers and writers in story conference decide to remake this kidnapping story or Woolrich's "Nightmare" or Fleischer's "The Narrow Margin3" one more time, do they refer to these stories by name? Or has even the origin of these works been lost to Hollywood tradition? In any case, this tale is generally considered the best of the early Continental4 Op tales. Hammett's early fiction has an austere5 quality, compared to that of his colleague and predecessor6 Carroll John Daly. The lurid7 events of the tale are narrated8 in a deliberately9 dry tone by the Continental Op, who has seen it all, and who is Not Emotionally Involved. More than just tone, however, the austerity is conveyed by the plot. The story focuses on a strong, plain symmetric plot pattern, and strips all irrelevant10 detail away to reveal that plot. There is something contemplative about the story: it exists mainly to unveil a certain pattern, and hold it up to the reader's and author's gaze for contemplation.
"Fly Paper" and "The Gatewood Caper" are linked. The later story seems to grow out of plot elements of the earlier. Everything, especially the personal relationships among the younger characters, has grown more complex in the later tale. Hammett's storytelling in 1929 is much more fluid. It sweeps the reader along pleasantly.
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v.雀跃,欢蹦;n.雀跃,跳跃;续随子,刺山柑花蕾;嬉戏 | |
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2 crooked | |
adj.弯曲的;不诚实的,狡猾的,不正当的 | |
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n.页边空白;差额;余地,余裕;边,边缘 | |
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adj.大陆的,大陆性的,欧洲大陆的 | |
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adj.艰苦的;朴素的,朴实无华的;严峻的 | |
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6 predecessor | |
n.前辈,前任 | |
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adj.可怕的;血红的;苍白的 | |
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v.故事( narrate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地 | |
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10 irrelevant | |
adj.不恰当的,无关系的,不相干的 | |
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