William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.
His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in 'Of Human Bondage' , Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays.
During World War I, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service . He travelled all over the world, and made many visits to America. After World War II, Maugham made his home in south of France and continued to move between England and Nice till his death in 1965.
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius.
老实说我是被那句关于月亮和六便士的话吸引才读了这本小说的。我读的不仔细,以下仅为个人观点,手机党可能写的不详细,欢迎探讨。除了这部小说的主题我喜欢之外,关于这个主题扩张的情节实在是…我不知道为什么作者在叙述施特略夫的时候总是流露出鄙夷的情绪,他是有点懦弱,...
评分前段时间看过一个朋友写的有关毛姆和黑塞之间的比较,从风格到技巧上都做了分析。事实上,两个人最大的不同,其实在于身份。黑塞骨子里是哲学家,尽管披着作家的外衣,但他的作品是深入而专注于“人类精神状况的出路”。而毛姆则是一个典型的作家,他只讲故事。 “作家更想去...
评分我终于还是没能忍住在读完这篇小说后立即写一篇书评。自从用了多看阅读之后,我开始逐渐形成给自己注意的章句划线,兴之所至加上几句注释的习惯。这是一不小心就会有损纸质书的书本质量,或者空白处怎么都写不下自己的全部想法时难以想象的一种便利。而这部小说给我的感受是,...
评分老实说我是被那句关于月亮和六便士的话吸引才读了这本小说的。我读的不仔细,以下仅为个人观点,手机党可能写的不详细,欢迎探讨。除了这部小说的主题我喜欢之外,关于这个主题扩张的情节实在是…我不知道为什么作者在叙述施特略夫的时候总是流露出鄙夷的情绪,他是有点懦弱,...
评分毛姆是以高更的生活经历为参考,创造查尔斯·斯特里克兰德这个角色的,这点大家现在都很清楚了。原书成书于1919年,第一次世界大战刚刚结束,全欧洲迎来新秩序和希望的时代。当时的毛姆45岁,正值创作巅峰期,《月亮与六便士》是他在全盛期写下的杰作,亦是其作家生涯的最重要...
Words find themselves too plain to describe the gasping bruteness. What is it to be an artist? Totally moved by the latter part of the novel where the artist was wrapped with devinity and obscenity to the fatal end.
评分毛姆还真是仇女,整本书几乎就没说过任何女性好话,第一次读都没那么深刻的印象。《刀锋》相比之下就好多了,也许二十多年后随着阅历的增长谁都会变宽容吧。这本有点被过誉了,也就是字里行间的警言妙句有点意思。另外,果然跟着薄荷阅读不管怎样都能读完原著……
评分反复读多少遍都不为过~~
评分Gauguin
评分吐血,這一個個人物都是極品啊!Stroeve已經為Beauty & Genius卑微屈膝到不是人了,Strickland爲了passion for creating beauty可以抛棄人間萬事到這種地步,這真是終極裝逼,内心強大到這個地步還能稱人麽?!不否認沒有人性光輝的作品可以有其脫離人世的美,可怎麽又會成爲世人口中的“天才美”?可見後人都是裝逼。毛姆叔叔真心太厲害,言辭幽默用絕了!
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