▓ Lady in the Lake

The characters in Raymond Chandler's novels act along the line of clearly determined roles, similar to the actors in theater plays. Contrary to the latter, however, the text of the novel is not straightforwardly structured. The character is being put together during the process of reading and so is the reader also its performer. Individual lines of the dialogues, their vocabulary and the stylistics, as well as the descriptions of rooms, the names of streets and the qualities of the readers themselves and their momentary situation and condition – all this meets in one unique body.