"The Long Farewell" is the masterpiece of Chandler, a generation of grandmasters in the American literary world. This book is his sixth and most important novel, and has won the highly prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award in the world of mystery fiction.
Haruki Murakami said, "When I first read The Long Farewell, I couldn't help but marvel that there was such a thing. Chandler's writing is in a sense extremely personal, original, and belongs to the category that no one else can imitate. "Chandler's writing is concise, concise, and neat, textbook-level, and can be said clearly in 5 words, never 6 words." His words were like daggers and like spirits.
There are many wonderful parts of the novel, but the overall march is calm and calm, the characters are carrying their own stories, and from only a few words, you can see the greed, coldness, sinking, longing, decadence in his or her heart, everyone has flaws, and there is no complete person. Although it is a speculative novel, I don't have much desire to reason with reading it all the time, but I want to follow these people and see what kind of intersection they will have and what unknown situations will happen. Many of the scenes in the novel are full of picture sense, like a deep movie, and in the reversal of the ending, as an audience, I feel more of a relief from liberation than a surprise beyond expectations.
In the book "The Long Farewell", there is always a hint of sadness and parting. Like one of the protagonists, Lennox' innate melancholy and elegance make people feel some indelible pain in his heart, and the burning passion hidden under that broken, pale face. In his turbulent and displaced life, the happiness and pain he experienced were like crossing between the two worlds of light and darkness.
There is a saying in the book: People are dying, people are disabled, people are slit by flying glass, smashed to death on the steering wheel, crushed under heavy tires; people are beaten, robbed, strangled, raped and murdered; people are hungry and sick; people are bored, because they feel desperate, angry, cruel, fanatical, and crying because of loneliness or regret or fear.
Very heavy paragraph, but also an indisputable fact. We don't know at what point life will end. I don't know in which way we will leave the world. The only thing we can do is not waste every day and live every day with the greatest enthusiasm.