When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system - one among many to be found in these pages. We are introduced to the inverted worlds of the 'yellow' journalist, Clint Smoker; the high priest of hardmen, Joseph Andrews; the porno tycoon, Cora Susan; and Kent Price, the corpse in the hold of the stricken airliner, apparently determined, even in death, to bring down the plane that carries his spouse. Meanwhile, we explore the entanglements of Henry England: his incapacitated wife, Pamela; his Chinese mistress, He Zhezun; his fifteen-year-old daughter, Victoria, the victim of a filmed 'intrusion' which rivets the world - because she is the future Queen of England, and her father, Henry IX, is its King. The connections between these characters provide the pattern and drive of "Yellow Dog". Novelists have noticed that contemporary reality keeps outdoing their imaginations. Yet there is still the obligation to attempt a reading of the present and the very near future. If, in the twenty-first century, the moral reality is changing, then the novel is changing too, whether it likes it or not. "Yellow Dog" is an early example of how the novel, or more particularly the comic novel, can respond to this transformation. But Martin Amis is also concerned here with what is changeless and perhaps unchangeable - patriarchy, and the entire edifice of masculinity; the enormous category-error of violence, arising between man and man; the tortuous alliances between men and women; and the vanished dream (probably always an illusion, but now a clear delusion) that we can protect our future and our progeny.
Martin Amis is the author of nine novels, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. Koba the Dread, the successor to his celebrated memoir, Experience, was published by Cape in 2002.
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这本书最让我感到震撼的是它对“记忆”这个主题的解构方式。它没有采用传统的回忆录或者时间线叙事,而是通过碎片化的、非线性的视角,将人物的过去与现在交织在一起,模糊了现实与幻觉的边界。读到中间部分时,我甚至开始怀疑自己对书中事件的认知是否准确,这种被作者牵着鼻子走的体验,既令人不安又无比兴奋。叙事者明显带有强烈的偏见和不确定性,这使得我们作为读者,必须时刻保持警惕,去分辨哪些是事实,哪些是受创伤的灵魂所编织的谎言。更绝的是,作者在处理高潮情节时,采用了一种近乎戏剧化的、多声部合唱的结构,声音此起彼伏,信息量陡增,让人感觉仿佛置身于一个巨大的声场之中,情绪被推向了顶峰。这本书的后劲非常大,合上封面后,我花了半小时盯着天花板才真正回到现实世界。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直像一列脱缰的野马,让人手心冒汗却又忍不住一页页翻下去。作者构建的世界观宏大而又细腻,那些错综复杂的人物关系,一开始读起来有点像走进了迷宫,各种暗示和伏笔像蛛丝马迹一样散落在字里行间。我尤其欣赏作者对环境描写的功力,无论是那个弥漫着陈旧木头和潮湿泥土气味的古老小镇,还是那些光怪陆离的超自然现象发生的场景,都栩栩如生地呈现在眼前,仿佛我能闻到空气中的味道,感受到皮肤上的寒意。故事的核心冲突点设置得极为巧妙,它不是那种非黑即白的简单对立,而是关于信念、背叛与救赎的深刻探讨。主角的内心挣扎尤其牵动人心,他游走在理智的边缘,每一步选择都伴随着巨大的代价。我花了整整一个下午才消化完其中关于时间悖论的那一章,那种智力上的挑战感,久违了!这本书需要的不仅仅是阅读,更是一种投入和解码的过程,读完后脑子里久久回荡着那些未解的谜团和人物的命运。
评分坦白说,初读此书时,我一度感到有些气馁,文字密度实在太高,仿佛每一句话都承载了双倍的信息量。它不像市面上流行的快餐文学那样一目了然,它更像是给那些寻求深度和挑战的读者准备的一份饕餮盛宴。作者的语言风格带着一种古典的厚重感,大量运用了意象和隐喻,使得原本可能直白的情节被赋予了多重解读的可能性。举个例子,书中反复出现的“破碎的镜子”这一意象,我解读了好几种不同的含义,每一次重读都有新的体悟。这本书的优点恰恰在于它的“难懂”,它强迫你停下来,去思考,去查阅,去联想。那些配角的塑造也极其成功,即便是出场只有几页纸的过客,其性格的侧面也刻画得入木三分,让人过目不忘。我推荐给那些对文学性要求较高的朋友,但这绝对不是一本可以躺在沙发上轻松翻阅的书籍,它需要你端坐书桌前,备好纸笔,随时准备记录那些灵光一闪的顿悟。
评分对于那些期待传统情节驱动故事的读者来说,这本书可能需要一个适应期。它的核心驱动力并非外部事件的连锁反应,而是角色内心世界的不断坍塌与重建。作者对人类情感的刻画入木三分,尤其是那种深入骨髓的孤独感和无法弥补的遗憾,描绘得极其精准到位。我特别留意了作者对“沉默”的处理。很多关键的情感交流不是通过对话完成的,而是通过角色之间微妙的肢体语言、未出口的叹息,甚至是长时间的对视来实现的。这种留白的处理,极大地增强了文字的力量,让读者有空间去填补那些情感的空白。这本书的社会批判性也值得称赞,它不动声色地触及了权力结构下的个体异化问题,但它很少用说教的方式进行,而是将这些黑暗的现实包裹在精美的文学外衣之下,使其更具穿透力。
评分这是一部需要反复品味的“慢读”作品。我发现,当我尝试跳着看或者只是追求情节发展时,我错过太多美妙的细节了。这本书的语言本身就是一种艺术享受,作者对于词汇的选择极度讲究,很多我们习以为常的词汇,在这里被赋予了全新的、令人耳目一新的语境。比如,书中有一段描述风的段落,我数了一下,用了至少八个不同的形容词来描述风的“质地”和“意图”,这显示了作者在文字上的极致追求。从结构上看,它更像是一部交响乐的乐章,有柔板的铺陈,有快板的激烈冲撞,也有突如其来的休止符,这些都精准地服务于情感的起伏。这本书无疑提升了我对当代小说的期待值,它证明了文学创作仍然可以保持其深度、复杂性和挑战性,并且在娱乐之余,给予读者持久的精神滋养。它不是一本轻松愉快的读物,但绝对是值得你付出时间和精力的杰作。
评分hotchpotch of many things, not pleasant.
评分hotchpotch of many things, not pleasant.
评分hotchpotch of many things, not pleasant.
评分hotchpotch of many things, not pleasant.
评分hotchpotch of many things, not pleasant.
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