V.S.奈保尔(1932—2018 )
英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭,1950年进入牛津大学攻读英国文学,毕业后迁居伦敦。
50年代开始写作,著有《米格尔街》、《斯通先生与骑士伙伴》、《自由国度》、《大河湾》、“印度三部曲”、《非洲的假面剧》等。20 01年荣获诺贝尔文学奖。
Brilliant and terrifying' - "Observer". I had to be the man who was doing well and more than well, the man whose drab shop concealed some bigger operation that made millions. I had to be the man who had planned it all, who had come to the destroyed town at the bend in the river because he had foreseen the rich future. 'Salim, the narrator, is a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast of Central Africa. Salim has left the coast to make his way in the interior, there to take on a small trading shop of this and that, sundries, sold to the natives. The place is 'a bend in the river'; it is Africa. The time is post-colonial, the time of Independence. The Europeans have withdrawn or been forced to withdraw and the scene is one of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation, poverty and a lack of preparation for the modern world they have entered, or partially assumed as a sort of decoration. It is a story of historical upheaval and social breakdown. Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force. It is a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant brilliance' - Elizabeth Hardwick. 'Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for underlying social causes, a Tolstoyan spirit' - John Updike.
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他们只是活着,守着本分,沿袭着先人的活法,对其他一切都不感兴趣也从来不问为什么,逃避讨论问题,装作一切都无所谓。他们冷漠的活着,要别人来告诉自己他们是谁从哪里来。 这个民族是脆弱的,在外部未知世界的威胁面前不堪一击,是的,非洲式的非洲退缩了,欧洲的移植取得了...
评分还是在大三时读的,并不觉得像多少人所说的那样精彩,全篇有很浓郁的无奈感,不过那种沉重远没有当时自己所处的心态沉重。 文中描写的大量氛围其实在新开发的地方都能感受的到,不过可能是写非洲才让人觉得有吸引力吧。旧势力的衰落新力量的崛起是历史的必然,至于想借助外来文...
评分幸运能读到奈保尔这本重要的书,何况是个好译本。读后你似乎不会怀疑,作者就是一个货真价实的新非洲人,新非洲城镇居民生活的窗户缝儿里,就那么透出光来。毕竟,只有奈保尔什么都能、愿、敢写。不過坦率地說,後半部裏浮現出的不安和焦躁有點不匹配大師的穩穩手筆。即便只是...
评分嗯,生活本无意义,生来即为变老。 跟安·兰德的励志哲学、保罗·柯艾略的心灵哲学比起来,这句话简直是误导年轻人的歪理邪说。这不是对人生黄金期的宏大事业、美好爱情、温馨亲情、义气友情,通通视而不见了吗? 嗯,我们的确会对生活感到无力,的确会对虚度光阴淡然不自知...
评分茂密的丛林中,谁才是真正的“非洲人”,还是只是一些无足轻重的人,“在这个世界上没有位置”? 奈保尔提出了问题,他是一个局外人,《大河湾》中对非洲的描述更像来自一个旅行者,就像萨林姆对“大人物”总统的看法,一个遥远地方的形象,只挂在墙壁上。这影响了作品所能达到...
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评分因为英文课要写书评的缘故,读了一遍英文版。
评分因为英文课要写书评的缘故,读了一遍英文版。
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