A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching onto a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman.
He is a ‘born recruit’, easily influenced by others who try and mould his destiny. Not until he tangles with the glamorous Thea, a huntress with a trained eagle, can he attempt to break free.
A modern day Everyman on an odyssey in search of reality and identity, Augie March is the star performer in Bellow’s exuberant, richly observed human variety show.
Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago, received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, and served in the Merchant Marine during World War II.
Mr. Bellow's first novel, Dangling Man, was published in 1944, and his second, The Victim, in 1947. In 1948 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent two years in Paris and traveling in Europe, where he began The Adventures of Augie March,, which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1954. Later books include Seize The Day (1956), Henderson The Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968), and Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970). Humboldt's Gift (1975), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Both Herzog and Mr. Sammler's Planet were awarded the National Book Award for fiction. Mr. Bellow's first non-fiction work, To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account, published on October 25,1976, is his personal and literary record of his sojourn in Israel during several months in 1975.
In 1965 Mr. Bellow was awarded the International Literary Prize for Herzog, becoming the first American to receive the prize. In January 1968 the Republic of France awarded him the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, the highest literary distinction awarded by that nation to non-citizens, and in March 1968 he received the B'nai B'rith Jewish Heritage Award for "excellence in Jewish literature", and in November 1976 he was awarded the America's Democratic Legacy Award of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the first time this award was made to a literary personage.
A playwright as well as a novelist, Saul Bellow was the author of The Last Analysis and of three short plays, collectively entitled Under the Weather, which were produced on Broadway in 1966. He contributed fiction to Partisan Review, Playboy, Harper's Bazaar, The New Yorker, Esquire, and to literary quarterlies. His criticism appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Horizon, Encounter, The New Republic, The New Leader, and elsewhere. During the 1967 Arab-lsraeli conflict, he served as a war correspondent for Newsday. He taught at Bard College, Princeton University, and the University of Minnesota, and was a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
最近疯狂读书,这么多年来又回到高中去了,沉浸到书里去了,只是有时候是忍着去读,像喝苦咖啡那样附庸风雅,这本书话说真的很厚,长篇687页,昨晚+今晚读完了,很美的语言,很深得我心的叙事风格,很温馨的hero,最最重要的是:他的哲理,对人生的思考,他的处世之道,他面临...
评分索尔•贝娄的作品中,有两个重要的共同点,一是其笔下的故事大部分的背景都被设定于芝加哥,这源于贝娄在这一座工业经济快速发展的城市中生活了多年,作者对这一城市的熟悉,同时芝加哥也作为一种混乱的一种文化象征出现在故事之中。二是在贝娄的故事之中,其人物故...
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评分我发现这本书最引人入胜的地方,在于它对“边缘人”生存状态的细腻捕捉和深刻反思。主角并非传统意义上的英雄,他游走在社会规范的边缘,以一种近乎游牧般的状态面对生活的重压和诱惑。作者没有给他贴上简单的标签,而是展现了他作为一个复杂个体的多面性——既有对美好事物的向往,也有根植于人性深处的缺陷和妥协。这种真实感,来自于作者对社会底层细节的毫不回避的描摹,无论是肮脏的后巷,还是光鲜外表下的虚伪,都以一种近乎纪实的手法呈现出来。这让阅读过程成为一种持续的道德拷问,迫使读者去审视自己所处的安全地带,并思考“成功”和“体面”的真正含义。它探讨了身份的流动性,以及在快速变化的时代背景下,一个人如何努力地去定义自我,构建一个不被外界标准所定义的心灵栖息地。读完之后,你可能会对周遭那些被你忽略的“局外人”产生一种全新的、更加深沉的同理心。
评分这部作品的结构处理,简直是一场大胆的实验,它拒绝了传统小说的清晰因果链条,转而采用了一种更接近意识流的、碎片化的叙事方式。情节的推进常常是跳跃的,时间感被拉伸、压缩,仿佛主角的思绪本身就决定了故事的走向,而非外部事件。这要求读者必须放弃对“接下来会发生什么”的传统期待,转而关注“此刻正在发生什么”的内在体验。书中那些冗长而又充满哲思的段落,与其说是在推进剧情,不如说是在构建一个完整的、多层次的心理剧场。我特别喜欢作者处理视角转换的方式,有时候是冷静的观察者,有时候是完全沉浸在主角狂热幻想中的第一人称,这种视角的摇摆不定,反而增强了叙事的张力,让人始终保持一种清醒的疏离感,既能共情,又能批判性地看待所发生的一切。这并非一本容易消化的书,但对于喜欢挑战阅读边界的读者来说,它提供了一个极其独特的视角来审视现实的构成。
评分从文学技法的角度来看,这本书简直是一场语言的盛宴,其丰富性和创造力令人咋舌。作者似乎拥有一个取之不尽的词汇宝库,他毫不吝啬地将那些平时被文学界束之高阁的、充满地方色彩和时代烙印的词语重新激活,赋予它们鲜活的生命力。不同角色的对话,简直就是不同社会阶层、不同文化背景的生动缩影,那些机锋暗藏、充满智慧的交锋,读起来酣畅淋漓,让人忍不住要大声朗读出来,体会那种语言的张力和韵律感。然而,这种对语言的极致运用,有时也带来了一定的阅读障碍,需要反复咀嚼才能真正领会其中深意。但正是这种“不平坦”的阅读路径,保证了其文本的持久魅力,它不像那些速朽的流行小说,读完即忘,这本书里的句子,某些片段,会像钉子一样,深深地楔入你的记忆深处,时不时地在你毫无防备的时候跳出来,让你回想起那个充满活力和混乱的世界。这是一部需要带着词典和足够耐心去探索的文本迷宫。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直像一趟开往未知目的地的火车,忽而疾驰,扬起漫天尘土,让人几乎跟不上主人公跌宕起伏的步伐;忽而又慢下来,沉入对周遭环境细致入微的观察中,如同老式胶片机捕捉光影般细腻。我尤其欣赏作者对人物内心世界的刻画,那种夹杂着理想主义的浪漫与赤裸裸的生存挣扎之间的微妙平衡,读起来让人既感到心潮澎湃,又忍不住为主人公的每一次抉择捏一把汗。它不是那种可以轻松阅读、随时放下的小说,你需要全身心地投入,去适应它那不拘一格的语言风格,那种充满了俚语、机智对白和近乎诗意的内心独白的混合体。有时候,你会觉得作者似乎在故意绕远路,但等你回过神来,却发现那些看似无用的插曲,恰恰是构成人物灵魂肌理的必要纤维。这种阅读体验,更像是一场与作者共同进行的、充满意外发现的城市漫步,每转一个街角,都有新的惊喜或令人不安的真相等待着被揭示。对于习惯了线性叙事的读者来说,这可能需要一些适应期,但一旦你沉浸进去,那种强烈的代入感和对世界更深层次的理解,绝对是值得付出的努力。
评分真正让我感到震撼的,是这本书所散发出的那种近乎原始的、对自由的狂热追求。这种自由并非简单的逃避,而是一种积极地、充满创造性的对抗体制、对抗既定命运的姿态。主角每一次看似鲁莽的决定,背后都隐藏着对一种更真实、更本真的生命状态的渴望。作者没有将这种追求美化成一帆风顺的史诗,相反,他毫不留情地展现了这种“非主流”生活方式所伴随的代价——孤独、不确定性以及不断地与世界碰撞带来的创伤。正是这种对高昂代价的坦诚,使得主角的奋斗显得尤为可贵和动人。它探讨了在高度组织化的现代社会中,个体如何保有其野性和不可驯服的一面。读完后,那种被压抑许久的热情似乎找到了宣泄的出口,让人忍不住想要审视自己生活中的那些“被驯服”的角落,并思考是否还有勇气去拥抱那些未知的、充满风险的“冒险”。
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