When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
"Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence."
--Ross Macdonald
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.
In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published just seven full novels during his lifetime (though an eighth in progress at his death was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been realized into motion pictures, some several times. In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died on March 26, 1959, in La Jolla, California.
Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. Chandler's Philip Marlowe, along with Hammett's Sam Spade, are considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective," both having been played on screen by Humphrey Bogart, whom many considered to be the quintessential Marlowe.
Some of Chandler's novels are considered to be important literary works, and three are often considered to be masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953). The Long Goodbye is praised within an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery"
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评分这本书的魅力,很大程度上来自于它对道德模糊地带的深入探索。它压根就没打算给你一个清晰的是非标准。谁是受害者?谁是加害者?在这个故事里,界限早已被模糊得看不见了。你会发现,那些看起来最无辜的人,可能藏着最深的秘密;而那些表面上风光无限的,却可能是最可怜的囚徒。作者的厉害之处在于,他没有对任何人进行简单的道德审判,而是把所有的动机都赤裸裸地摆在你面前,让你自己去体会人性的复杂和不堪。我常常在想,如果我身处主角的境地,我是否还能保持住那份清醒?这种代入感非常强烈,以至于读完后,我看向周围的世界,都多了一层审视和怀疑。这种对人性的深刻洞察,使得这部作品超越了一般的悬疑类型,进入了更深层次的社会批判和心理剖析层面。它像一面镜子,映照出光鲜社会背后的狰狞和无奈。
评分这部作品简直就是一团迷雾,把人牢牢地锁在光怪陆离的洛杉矶地下世界里,走不出来。你得做好心理准备,因为这里的“真相”比你想象的要浑浊得多,每揭开一层,似乎就陷得更深一层。作者的叙事手法高明就高明在,他从不急着给你答案,而是让你跟着主角那双布满血丝的眼睛,穿梭在华丽的豪宅和肮脏的小巷之间。你看着他周旋于那些表面光鲜实则内心腐烂的权贵之间,那种令人窒息的压抑感,简直能透过纸页渗出来。那些人物,没有一个是单纯的好人,个个都戴着精心打磨的面具,言谈举止间充满了试探和算计。特别是关于家族秘密的部分,那种世代相传的罪孽感,沉重得让人喘不过气。每一次对话,都像是一场没有硝烟的战争,字里行间都藏着刀。你得全神贯注,不然就会错过那些微妙的表情变化,那些不经意的停顿,而这些,恰恰是解开谜团的关键。读完合上书本的那一刻,你会感觉自己好像也刚从一场漫长而疲惫的追逐中回来,浑身沾满了这座城市特有的尘土和虚伪。
评分从结构上来说,这部作品简直是个精巧的迷宫,入口和出口似乎总在同一个地方打转,但你每次走进去的体验都是全新的。故事线索错综复杂,各种人物关系像蛛网一样交织在一起,你以为抓住了主线,结果发现那只是支流的延伸。而且,它特别擅长利用环境来烘托情绪。无论是那潮湿阴冷的夜晚,还是灯红酒绿的派对,每一个场景都有其独特的“味道”,都为接下来的事件埋下了伏笔。我最佩服的是作者在处理信息量时的平衡感,他不会用大量的背景介绍来拖慢节奏,而是将必要的信息点散落在角色的对话和环境的描述中,需要你像拼图一样去组合。这要求读者必须保持高度的专注力,否则很容易被某个次要情节带偏,从而错过整体的布局。那种抽丝剥茧,最终豁然开朗的阅读体验,是极其令人满足的。
评分这家伙的文笔,简直就是一曲低沉而充满爵士乐慵懒感的散文诗,但骨子里却流淌着冰冷的金属味。他描绘场景的手法,不是那种教科书式的精准,而是充满了情绪和氛围。当你读到那些夏日的午后,阳光透过百叶窗切割出斑驳的光影时,你能真切地感受到空气的粘稠和那份挥之不去的颓废感。角色之间的互动,更是妙不可言,他们说话的方式,那种带着某种默契的疏离,仿佛每个人都在用最少的词语,传递出最大的信息量。我尤其喜欢他对内心独白的刻画,主角那种带着玩世不恭外壳下的敏锐观察力,简直让人拍案叫绝。他不是一个传统的英雄,更像是一个被卷入泥潭的局外人,用他特有的灰色幽默来对抗这个世界的荒谬。每一次他看似随意的行为,回过头来看,都像是精心布局的一步棋。这使得整个故事的节奏把握得极为出色,时而缓慢得让人几乎要睡着,时而又猛地提速,让你心跳加速,生怕错过哪个重要的转折点。
评分这部作品读起来,就像是看了一场老式的黑色电影,充满了宿命论的悲凉底色。主角的行动逻辑,往往不是基于简单的逻辑推理,而更多的是基于一种对现状的无奈和对某种“规则”的遵循,即使这个规则是错乱的。那种无力感,那种无论怎么挣扎都逃不脱命运设下的圈套的绝望,是贯穿始终的主旋律。它不追求大团圆的结局,事实上,这类故事里的“好”结局往往也带着深深的遗憾和妥协。我尤其欣赏那种对话的张力,那种表面上心平气和的交谈下,暗流涌动的杀气。每次角色开口,你都能感觉到他们正在进行一场高风险的赌博。看完后,我久久不能平静,不是因为被惊吓到,而是被那种深沉的、对世界本质的理解所震撼。它探讨的不是谁偷了什么,而是人心是如何一步步走向堕落和沉沦的。
评分第一个女人出场的时候。只有一句描述:“She has a long leg.” 我觉得我读到了古龙。
评分第三遍读。关于那个影史上的著名问题:“谁杀了司机?”仍然没有答案。
评分hard-boiled硬汉侦探小说典范:冷雨长街,风衣礼帽,金发美女冷艳香唇多情人;酒馆旅社,烈酒香烟,硬汉侦探夺命手枪无情种。
评分情节如此老套,然而写得如此硬,如此好。
评分情节如此老套,然而写得如此硬,如此好。
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