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看完电影就开始垂涎原著了
评分the essence of the book is mistaken by many i would said. It is disguised as a book on sex between a young girl and an experienced older Man. It is in fact a book about a hunter who gets hunted himself. A book about love. The love he develops for her.
评分the chaos of Eros
评分He who forms a tie is lost. 一个多月来也一样的婆娑烟火,也一样言语不通但肉欲痴缠后更能明白了。
评分美国六十年代至今的个人纵欲史。印象深的只有一个镜头,"Yes, that was something, wasn't it?" Kate said. And then with her weary smile she added, "I wonder who it is he thought I was." (另,豆瓣第二条评论是译文原文。。。
菲利普・罗斯(Philip Roth),1933年出生在美国新泽西州的纽瓦克市,被认为是当代最杰出的美国犹太裔作家之一。罗斯以短篇小说《再见,哥伦布》崛起,在过去的十年间,他已赢得美国多个主要文学奖项,1998年更是凭借《美国田园诗》一举获得美国普利策文学奖,电影《人性污点》即由他2000年出版的同名畅销小说改编,他也是近年来获诺贝尔文学奖呼声颇高的作家之一。
Book Description
David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York College, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twentyfour, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder and haunts him for the next eight years. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s freed him from his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an 'emancipated manhood' beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years, he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and licence into an orderly way of life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of Eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of this 'newly-hatched' woman - 'a masterpiece,' as Kepesh describes Consuela, 'of volupte' - undo him completely. His worldliness, his confidence, his reason desert him, and on the brink of old age, a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The light-hearted erotic tale with which he began evolves into a poignant, tragic story of love and loss. The Dying Animal is vintage Roth fiction, a masterpiece of passionate immediacy. It is intellectually bold, forcefully candid, wholly of our time, and utterly without precedent - a story of sexual discovery told about himself by a man of seventy.
Amazon.co.uk
The Dying Animal is the latest addition to Philip Roth's already considerable and highly celebrated oeuvre. The protagonist is David Kepesh, a recurring protagonist in Roth's work, having been introduced first in the Kafkaesque 1972 novella, The Breast, and again in The Professor of Desire (1979). Kepesh, now a 70-year-old arts critic and lecturer in critical theory, is a sexual adventurer, who feels himself liberated from marriage, children and old school sexual mores by the 1960s sexual revolution, and uses his celebrity and intellectual reputation to seduce the young women that he tutors. Written in the form of a conversational confession, Roth has Kepesh introduce the method of his sexual conquests and then the foil to his method, the beautiful, mannered and busty Consuela Castillo. So begins a description of a descent into the madness of love; "crazy distortions of longing, doting, possessiveness ... this need, this derangement. Will it ever stop?"
. What begins as a chronology of sexual conquest becomes an exquisite meditation on the destructive and addictive nature of love and lust. Notions of social freedom, and sexual emancipation are explored as Kepesh, who for so long has considered himself a free animal, finds himself caged in by his obsession. His journey of sexual discovery becomes one of self-discovery, and as his life journey nears its close he also begins to realise in himself and those around him, "the dying animal" (from Yeats' poem "Sailing to Byzantium"),a different beast to the sexual animal yet still entwined with it through shared flesh.
This is a sexually candid novel, a brave and daring one, a novel that does not blink in the admission that so many of our actions are motivated by the sexual. In this it is reminiscent of the writings of Henry Miller, which are mentioned among the many literary references that populate this book. Every line of Roth's prose brings a desire to read the next; it is brilliantly written, and like the Yeats poem from which it draws inspiration, it is open to much interpretation.
--Iain Robinson
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6
身体所包含的人生故事和头脑一样多。 ——埃德纳·奥勃兰恩 我八年前就认识她了。她那会儿听我的课。我不再教全日制班了,准确地说是不再上文学课了——多年来就教这一个班,是个高年级的文学批评大型研讨班,名为 “实用批评”。我吸引了不少女生。原因有二。一是因为这门课程很...
评分73岁的菲利普·罗斯又出了新书:《普通人》(Everyman)。书的封套上有作家的照片,虽然老,但精神不错。这是好几十年来菲利普·罗斯第一次允许照片随书发行,据说是为了避免自传的误会。《普通人》是关于衰老和死亡的故事,主人公与作家一样都生于1933年,简短的小说开始于他...
评分苏轼《与王庠》写道:“书富如入海,百货皆有之,人之精力,不能兼收尽取,但得其所欲求者。” 读菲利普•罗斯《垂死的肉身》,找到一个很好的比喻:“她就像新孵出的雏鸟,圆圆的前额上还粘着蛋壳碎片也不奇怪。”除了这个比喻之外,值得“一意求之”的是教授大卫•凯...
评分身体所包含的人生故事和头脑一样多。 ——埃德纳·奥勃兰恩 我八年前就认识她了。她那会儿听我的课。我不再教全日制班了,准确地说是不再上文学课了——多年来就教这一个班,是个高年级的文学批评大型研讨班,名为 “实用批评”。我吸引了不少女生。原因有二。一是因为这门课程很...
评分先看电影《挽歌》,尔后读了原著小说《垂死的肉身》。由于电影影像的局限性,或者导演的镜头缺乏超常规的想象力和表现力,无法精准地具象这样一部饱含大量心理描写的故事,电影因此没能达到小说的深度。这样的遗憾,在看以香味描写见长的小说《香水》改编的电影中同样存在...
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