Walker Percy (1916–1990) was one of the most prominent American writers of the twentieth century. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he was the oldest of three brothers in an established Southern family that contained both a Civil War hero and a US senator. Acclaimed for his poetic style and moving depictions of the alienation of modern American culture, Percy was the bestselling author of six fiction titles—including the classic novel The Moviegoer (1961), winner of the National Book Award—and fifteen works of nonfiction. In 2005, Time magazine named The Moviegoer one of the best English-language books published since 1923
Winner of the 1961 National Book Award
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.
The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.
看完这本书,马上想到一部电影《革命之路》,或许革命之路里的凯特温斯莱特是女版的比克保林。区别是小说更像是沉静的内省,而电影更富悲剧意味的,情节更戏剧化。 大学时代的我很迷茫,就去读各式各样的书;后来喜欢上看电影也是把它当成人生的样式来考察、参照与思考。看了这...
评分读Walker Percy的《看电影的人》,很感动。 文字优美深邃,透着对人生的冷澈顿悟和悲凉情怀。如果一个人30岁就看透人生,生活将会没有激情吗?也许,“我把春天抱在怀里,紧紧地抱住它,心里升起一股悲哀”。金钱和美色似乎都不能“打动”他:“美色,单是追求美色,就是对上...
评分比克·保林,小说的主人公,是一位股票经纪人。他喜欢看电影,喜欢和女秘书谈情说爱,始终认为电影的意义在于自省。他不愿被平淡无奇的生活所淹没,只有在电影中才感觉到真实,于是开始追寻某种更为重要的东西。最后他放弃了自省,但也找到了他要的东西:Certification。 全书...
评分没看不出“自省”的主题与电影有多大的关系,事实上,连提到电影的地方都很少;但阅读这本书的过程却很是奇妙:一方面相当流畅,印满铅字的纸张水一般一页一页地滑过;另一方面,却让人出现严重的记忆障碍,例如那些接踵而至的人物,是被珀西突兀地添加进来的呢,还是在纷...
评分比克·保林是个混子。他年满三十,会赚钱,性取向正常。看起来值得信赖。而凯特却提醒他:不要认为你挣了三千美金你就不是混子了! 这种混子,也可以说是混子的亚品种,并不是在街上无所事事,或者喊口号,或者追求自杀或邪教的,而是将自己的外表进行合理化包装——弄个文凭,...
Elegant writing + flat storyline. Essentially what happens when you turn thirty and come back from a war... Binx... I just want to shake him sometimes.
评分很多时候很多人甘于平庸倒不是说就真的心甘情愿享受平凡了,而是自己无法再往上了只能认命而已,我记得以前看蔡康永写他在电影学院念书的时候,他的剧本课老师就指责他写的喜剧,说人就是生活太苦了才会去看电影,想看看那些比自己过的还苦的人,从而找到慰藉。我以前是真的没有理解这些话的,觉得巨荒诞,现在却有点理解了。电影是一段人生的缩影,我们没有楚门秀但却可以通过看电影来偷窥别人的人生从而审视自我。这本书写到电影的地方不多,但我们又岂止只是通过电影偷窥别人的生活呢。这本书给我的感觉和局外人是相似的,都让我有一种对自己的人生宛若隔岸观火的恐惧感。怪不得姜泡这么给我安利这书了。。
评分无聊的家庭琐事的那一部分我不是很喜欢,但是还是有一些内容击中我的。。
评分Elegant writing + flat storyline. Essentially what happens when you turn thirty and come back from a war... Binx... I just want to shake him sometimes.
评分難以消解的惆悵。無疾而終的存在朝聖,“a (southern) novel of New Orleans where the protagonist winds up missing Mardi Gras for a stockbrokers' convention in Chicago”, 如青年作者本人驅車拜見福克納 卻在他家門口怯場而不敢會面。沒有天啟 只溶解在平淡的"everydayness".
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