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a day like today but today , in the back of Page 12 , Juan Sasturain wrote what I had to write this day to justify another delivery peroncho-summer literary :

The Maltese Falcon, the boss of the novel black and Peronist, Dashiell Hammet.

Flaco, tough and stylish

By Juan Sasturain

In memoriam Dashiell Hammett (1896-1961)

On 10 January 1961, just half a century ago today , died almost secretly in a New York hospital Samuel Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon and a handful of novels and stories at the time, late in the first third of last century, changed the criminal narrative for good and forever. Beyond

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consolidated progress myth that surrounds the author and some of its characters, Sam Spade fortunate passed Bogart, above all, pure narrative work hard Hammett largely transcends the genre he chose to revolutionize from within in terms of form, and from the edges, in the way of movement. I mean, is the founder of the hard boiled and call for the French thriller.

Hammett is simply a remarkable writer, period, and in some respects an exceptional case because it was a work of unusual quality for a short and prolific period, 1927 to 1934 - but before reaching forty years, when laboriously concluded skinny man in the midst of success and a lot of money, was finished. Did not realize it at the time, but live nearly thirty years without being able to write again.

So, that last winter of '61 and always elegant skinny Dash was 65 and came from a decade-long bad. For some time, sick and destitute, living on borrowed time and the help of her friend Lilian Hellmann, companion with whom he shared thirty years of intermittent family and solidarity: from the crazy years of Hollywood-New York, money, parties and drunkenness, the quiet melancholy of late.

The myth of his integrity and loyalty has never negotiated codes with which it sustains. He, who had enlisted to fight fascism 48 years and served in the Aleutians, was persecuted and accused during the Cold War by the infamous Senator McCarthy & Co, because of its refusal to release the names of contributors of funds to pay the bonds of the communist militants arrested in the hunt witches. The shorthand text of their responses to the Commission is an example of coherence and dry irony. Convicted, Hammett was dignified and consistently to jail for six months, in the early fifties.

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