这部带有较多自传色彩的小说追溯了tony和brenda的婚姻在brenda与john beaver通奸后的破裂过程。Brenda的婚外情受到她在伦敦的世故朋友的鼓励。小说的最后,绝望的tony为摆脱烦恼到非洲的丛林中旅行,被一个酷爱迪更斯的老人捕获,从此留在密林中为其诵读迪更斯的小说。
Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have money, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal boredom, and becomes enamoured of a social parasite and professional luncheon-goer.
It's like when your dreamworld is granted to you, yet with a nightmarish tint. What would you do if you were Tony? Well, you know you cannot ever fight back, it's just up to you whether you suffer like a dumb hero or suffer a lot more and suffer interminabl...
评分精细的文字,非得细细品读才有得趣味。 对话中的小戏谑,优雅的不动声色的幽默,不显眼却很精妙的设计是大看点。若真是为了看情节为了看思想而大嚼特嚼这本书,就糟蹋了。
评分 评分It's like when your dreamworld is granted to you, yet with a nightmarish tint. What would you do if you were Tony? Well, you know you cannot ever fight back, it's just up to you whether you suffer like a dumb hero or suffer a lot more and suffer interminabl...
评分不知道最后tony是幸运还是不幸呢?是丛林之外的人们是a handful of dust 还是算上tony,他们都是a handful of dust?
语言洗练对话尤其轻车熟路,笔调好英式,能将悲剧沉重的东西用一种无感性、事不关己的调调表达出来,将主人公的呆傻、人性的卑鄙、idle rich的无聊生活以及终极的悲剧包藏在一部“轻松”的讽刺剧中。有一两处让我发笑的地方,但是读起来有股浓重的虚无主义味道,不喜欢。也许,虚无主义和狂热的宗教信仰真的只是一线之遥。Evelyn Waugh对人性的看法还真是苦涩。
评分Gothic有神马不好!Tony偏执守着大房子有神马错!(果然不能随便到乡下不然真的要被警察乡匪联手关起来变成疯婆子或者给人读狄更斯到死- -)
评分Tony还能再凄惨点吗。。。
评分荆棘般锋利的讽刺,披上工整漂亮语言的礼服,配搭上结构用心的配饰,系上幽默的领结。很好看很英国。
评分it is just a state of mind that you run away from and seek for. The plot is grippingly tight and unsettling.
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