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Cain is the last novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago.The book was first published in 2009. [1] In an earlier novel, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Saramago retold the main events of the life of Jesus Christ, as narrated in the New Testament, presenting God as the villain.
A "Mark of Cain" is featured in the TV series Supernatural (2005), and Cain appears as a character. [63] [64] Cain appears as the ultimate antagonist of the comic book series The Strange Talent of Luther Strode (2011). [65] In Darren Aronofsky's allegorical film Mother! (2017), the characters "oldest son" represent Cain and Abel. [66]
James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.
The house is torn down, and Cain metafictionally analyzes his own existence as a character in a comic book. [20] The characters were revived in 1985 by Alan Moore, who introduced them into his Swamp Thing series in issue #33 by retelling the Swamp Thing's origin story as depicted in a 1971 issue of House of Secrets.
He and Cain agreed on a two-book contract at $7,500 per book. [7] Cain delivered a manuscript in Cain agreed to make significant edits to Rainbow’s End, but his refusal to abandon the happy denouement led to a contretemps with Lipscomb, who preferred a “down beat” ending, but acquiesced. [8] Rainbow’s End was published in late 1974.
Cain was deeply gratified at the critical and commercial success of Double Indemnity, as well as the lead performances. Cain wrote to actor Barbara Stanwyck who plays Phyllis Nirdlinger [Phyllis Dietrichson in the film version] it is a very creepy sensation to see a character imagined by yourself step in front of your eyes exactly as you ...
The Root of His Evil is a novel by James M. Cain published in paperback by Avon in 1951. [1]Though Cain routinely employed the first-person narrative to tell his stories, The Root of His Evil is the only novel published in his lifetime in which Cain “writes through the voice of a woman.” (His 1941 novel Mildred Pierce is written in the third-person).
Three of a Kind is a collection of three novellas by James M. Cain, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1943. Each originally appeared as serials in magazines during the 1930s. [1] [2] [3] The collection includes Double Indemnity, first published in 1936 as a serial for Liberty magazine; [4] [5] Career in C Major, originally entitled "Two Can Sing" when it appeared in The American Magazine in 1938 ...