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.
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...
评分翻口毛边,书品近全新,比较可喜。 零四年读的中文译本,就想找原著看看,总算遂愿了。在BELLOW的作品里,这本大概只好算B+——A-的水准。
评分写作是一件极费精力之事,没有哪一类艺术家像作家一样伏在书桌上度过那么绵长的日夜。一种依靠脑力与勤奋才能完成的创作,将随着年岁遭遇衰退的困境。这是为何作家的巅峰之作往往出自四五十岁壮年之际,在步入花甲之年后开始急剧衰退。这同样解释了作为作家的村上春树需要每日...
评分“实在很难想象像拉维尔斯坦这样的人已经与世长辞了。” 索尔贝娄发出的感叹。“因为在一片鸟儿的聒噪声中,听不见他的话。”现代的民主社会恰如这聒噪的丛林,那些卑下的鸟儿却在不停地发出噪音,将高贵灵魂的声音都淹没了。拉维尔斯坦不再了,而聒噪的鸟儿们却仍在继续。 “...
评分“1992年6月18日,读索尔-贝娄读得索然无味。只记得里面写一个女人,头发分成两绺像一扇窗的两片帘子。写诗人:他既不能做子宫切除术,也不能把飞船送出月球。” ———————— 不知道那时看的是贝娄的哪本书了,《洪堡的礼物》?还是《赫索格》? 这本《拉椎尔斯坦》买来...
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.
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the life and death of a Jewish scholar
评分Now in retrospect, this book seems to the beginning of my recently-ended obsession.
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