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Lädt ... The Long Goodbye (Original 1953; 1988. Auflage)von Raymond Chandler (Autor)
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While the writing isn't as sharp as Raymond Chandler's earlier works, The Long Goodbye tells a more complicated story, one that takes longer to uncoil. An older Philip Marlowe has grown more cynical and has seen too much of Los Angeles, of police and high society, and of America, as evidenced by his numerous diatribes against big business and the government littering the novel. Marlowe especially sounds more like a conspiracy theorist than a private eye as he explains how the legal system is used to perpetuate organized crime. Still smart, resourceful and above all patient, Marlowe winds up in jail under suspicion of aiding the accused uxoricidal murderer Terry Lennox—a man he barely knows—flee to Mexico. After Lennox's highly suspicious suicide, Marlowe is propositioned by the publisher of a famous writer, and then the writer's wife, to keep the writer sober long enough to finish his latest book while also being warned not to investigate the death of Lennox's wife. On the way to that final, surprising goodbye, several more people will die and Marlowe will prove himself the match of the powerful people he rails against. Several things in the novel feel Gatsby-influenced: the cocktail party where the rich congregate, the beautiful women whose affections turn out badly for the men subjected to them. Unlike Fitzgerald, Chandler does not imbue these events and characters with romantic auras; instead, everyone involved is tainted or destroyed. The Long Goodbye is a well-paced tale of violence and corruption populated by hard-drinking men and the beautiful women that supposedly love them. A highly enjoyable read. A very fast read at the beginning, but it begins to bog down in the middle. I came into this with certain expectations of hard-boiled crime and the noir films they inspired: that they were a consciously created genre following rigid narrative rules. An anti-hero in an unjust world navigating a set of common plot devices and stock characters as archetypical to the American psyche as anything out of Plato or Jung. Perhaps this is true of neo-noir aping the past, but original noir was entirely spontaneous. Nobody intended to go out and make a new genre. The crime novelists and experimental filmmakers who created these works were already cynical people, fascinated by the cracks on the surface of postwar American prosperity and by the kinds of people who fell into them. These movies and books were produced independently of each other and only later someone happened to notice that they shared similar themes and styles. This is evident reading The Long Goodbye, which seems designed as an outlet for Raymond Chandler to complain about everything wrong with society. I found the actual murder mystery was much less interesting then the bizarre and contemptible characters who the PI protagonist, a clear author stand-in, would interact with on his way to solving the case. These characters seemed to be oversized and overstated caricatures of practices the author didn't approve of, people the author didn't like, and professions the author was deeply cynical about. Cops are all violent and corrupt, newspaper journalists are opportunists and liars, nobody ever became wealthy honestly, etc etc. Such a tell-it-like-it-is narrative always runs the risk of spouting some awful misogyny or racism, but beyond a handful of stereotypes this was barely present at all. This book also taught me how to make a gimlet, and now it's my favorite drink. Reading a Raymond Chandler novel is probably like taking a ride along the coast to Montecito on a warm evening in 1950, in a convertible with your best girl riding shotgun. The sweet smell of the ocean blowing through her hair, and the the smile she flashes back at you every time you look it her, telling you she wouldn't rather be anywhere else, or with anyone else. "The Long Goodbye" has it all. Superb novel. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Ein Freund Marlowes soll einen gräßlichen Mord verübt haben. Nachdem dieser Mann in Mexiko untergetaucht ist, will Marlowe dem Fall nachgehen, doch von Seiten des Schwiegervaters seines Freundes und von den Gesetzeswächtern kommen Drohungen. Marlowe wird mit einem neuen Fall beladen: Er soll den verschwundenen Schriftsteller Wade suchen. Plötzlich bilden sich Parallelen zwischen den beiden Fällen... Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The overall dialogue is great. One of the reasons I’m reading this. Sometimes, there’s one pithy Marlowe crack too many, that smacks of cleveritius, but most of the time, it’s an awful lot of fun. I do not like all the plot turns Chandler takes in this book. I do not get the focus on Linda Loring. I guess she’s just a red herring. I dislike the scene of their initial meeting at the bar -Marlowe is a confounding big mouth, and am not really sure of the point of their final farewell. In truth, I do not really buy the femmes and their motivations in this book. I really don’t like the drunken typed ramblings of novelist Roger Wade we have to read. I see no big function for that besides meeting a word count for Chandler.. The sermons on society’s ills, that can come from Marlowe or another cop or anyone else, don’t have the truthy edge like the ones in Little Sister, they come off like the wind bag rants you’d get from Joe Friday on Dragnet. Ultimately, I’m not sure I buy Chandler as a great psychologist or sociologist. He aint no Dostoyevsky or Stendhal.
The trips to the Verringer compound are a blast. Those are some of my fav sequences. Ernie is a loopy. secondary character. The scene with Mrs Wade and the literary agent Spencer, when he’s beginning to catch on is also terrific. I like the aura of menace that Candy the house boy generates, but I'm not sure he's ulltimately, appropriately resolved.
All in all I really liked the novel upon rereading it. I don’t think it’s a good as “Little Sister”, or “Farewell My Lovely” which is the Chandler novel I’ve read the most. I’ll have to hit The Big Sleep again. It’s been quite a while and the movie has eclipsed the novel in my memory.
Don’t think this is terribly dated at all. The surreal aspect of the narrative pulled me along in a state of dreamlike engagement. But like I said, the big mystery at the end of the novel for me is Phillip Marlowe -who is this guy? Why is he doing this? In spite of me knowing better, that is what my mind keeps working on, after putting this novel down.
And yeah I do want to check out a serious Gimlet. ( )