Author Info:
Saul Bellow
06/10/1915-04/05/2005
Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. his close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality, philosophy and history, loves and friends, old and new, and vaudeville routines from the remote past. The mood turns more somber once they have returned to the Midwest and Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS and Chick himself nearly dies. Deeply insightful and always moving, Saul Bellow's new novel is a journey through love and memory. It is brave, dark, and bleakly funny: an elegy to friendship and to lives well (or badly) lived.
2000年,有着85岁高龄的诺贝尔文学奖得主索尔•贝娄发表了他的第十九部作品《拉维尔斯坦》。很难想象年过古稀的老人家依然拥有着如此旺盛的创造力。对此,娄研究专家约拿森•威尔逊在《纽约时报》称:“《拉维尔斯坦》丰富、深刻和令人不安地有趣。”寥寥几字,就精确地概...
评分我对书名不敏感,几乎以为是列维根斯坦。而我又对哲学知之甚少,所以书放在家里很长时间了,也没有去看。直到几天前,我看见了作者的名字:贝娄。这是个熟悉的名字,记忆外国人的名字很难,除非你在键盘上敲过。 这事发生在1993年,邱小刚(网名:三七)在论坛贴了一篇美国《...
评分在巨大的头脑里,作者竟然陪同着我们一起拜访了他的往昔回忆.那么真切,历历再目,三维电影也不外如是. 又仿佛大家共同琢饮着美酒,一杯一杯,又一杯. 再来,是天空里的华尔兹,狐步,恰恰. 谢幕时分,仿佛是不尽的微笑,感谢,感谢. 巨大的能量体,燃烧,是美国,是欧洲,是拉维尔斯坦,是...
评分尽管詹姆斯·伍德盛赞贝娄在八十五高龄还能“如此丰沛地充满着他过去瀑布般的力量”,写下《拉维尔斯坦》,在写作的韧性上直追托尔斯泰与托马斯·曼( 自然,伍德是贝娄迷,听听这句论断就知道了——“索尔·贝娄或许是美国20世纪最伟大的小说家——这里的最伟大意味着最多产...
评分索尔•贝娄有句名言,叫“在我离开之前,清算我全部的账目”。或许对于这位出生并成长在美国文化环境(他生于加拿大,9岁时随父母在芝加哥定居)之中的犹太裔知识分子作家,在目睹了20世纪的狂热与极端之后,是十分希望不留亏欠,也不被亏欠地离开这个世界的。但索尔•贝...
the life and death of a Jewish scholar
评分Now in retrospect, this book seems to the beginning of my recently-ended obsession.
评分Now in retrospect, this book seems to the beginning of my recently-ended obsession.
评分Now in retrospect, this book seems to the beginning of my recently-ended obsession.
评分结尾有点小失望 "every personal discussion turned finally into good, clean, nihilistic fun." She had been one of Ravelstein's learned groupies. She was good at Greek. To study with R you had to read your Xenophon, Thucydides, and Plato in Greek.
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