蒂姆·奥布莱恩,美国作家。生于美国明尼苏达州沃辛顿,1968年毕业于圣保罗的麦卡莱斯特学院。1966至1970年,他作为步兵在越南服役。战后,他在哈佛大学攻读政府学研究生课程,后担任《华盛顿邮报》的国家事务记者。现居于马萨诸塞。
奥布莱恩的作品主要反映他在越战中的经历以及战争给美国士兵带来的巨大影响。1979年,《追寻卡奇亚托》荣获美国国家图书奖。1994年《湖畔迷网》被《纽约时报书评》评为年度最佳图书,亦被《时代周刊》评为年度最佳小说。1998年,《恋爱中的雄猫》一经出版立刻成为全美畅销书。
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"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."
A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
一个士兵的精神崩溃/麻木历史。 他们carry的东西太多了。 Carry的东西既可以让他们生也可以让他们死。 不仅是肉体上的Carry,也有精神上的carry。 他们被动地选择carry不愿carry的东西。 是memory给的,是imagination给的,是羞愧感给的,是position system给的。 他们无法拒绝...
评分前段时间看新闻,今年是越战结束35周年,这场发生在上个世纪1961年~1975年之间的战争,最后的结局是南北越完成统一,而美国政府则谓之“光荣的撤退”。这个所谓的光荣的撤退成为美国建国以来持续时间最久的局部战争,美军死亡5.8万人,受伤30.4万人,2000多人失踪。经济方面...
评分很少能有小说,在第一章,就叫人读得喘不过气来。 我对战争题材一向持规避态度,我受不了那种血腥、残忍、肮脏,我厌恶战争,厌恶这种野蛮而暴虐的争端解决方式,我很少看战争题材的电影,也不爱读战争小说。 但《The Things They Carried》第一句就吸引了我。中尉吉...
评分 评分关于战争的虚虚实实
评分Things they carried can never be described truthfully.
评分傑作。關於說故事的故事,虛虛實實,幽默 - 作為生命中難以承受的輕盈以對抗生命消亡的哀愁。作者是個真正的故事大師,準確無誤的一幕幕場景體現著以文學起死回生的最終希冀。
评分War stories can never be interesting~
评分Profound. Touching. Painful.
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