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“Sorry if I let my brains show”: Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye is grim and funny, its protagonist, Philip Marlowe, half hardboiled and mean, half incorruptible and true. The Long Goodbye is a detective novel, but thanks to Marlowe’s narration the story resonates beyond a narrow classification. The quality of Marlowe’s observation as a narrator fills in the backstory the reader needs,Continue reading ““Sorry if I let my brains show”: Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye”

The Shift in the Shadow’s Distance: William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

Clarity of voice and clarity of detail are at odds in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, a novel that tackles the complicated and desperate lives of a family living in the South in the first part of the twentieth century. The narrators struggle to grasp reality and to make sense of their experiences andContinue reading “The Shift in the Shadow’s Distance: William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury”