Swedish Marxist Noir. The Dark Wave of Crime Writers and the Influence of Raymond Chandler, Paperback/Per Hellgren

Explores and develops a theory of Swedish Marxist Noir . In order to expose the dialectics of crime fiction, going from then (the American 1930s) to now (the Swedish post-1990s), we must explore, through a Marxist reading of several central works of crime fiction, the Marxist connection between the writings of Raymond Chandler and the Swedish wave of crime fiction since the 1960s.