Javier Cercas is one of the most enjoyable and innovative novelists at work today. Well known among English-language readers as the author of Soldiers of Salamis (winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), The Anatomy of a Moment and The Impostor, Cercas is also Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Girona. In 2015, following in the footsteps of George Steiner, Mario Vargas Llosa and Umberto Eco, as Weidenfeld Visiting Professor in Comparative European Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford, Cercas gave a series of five lectures on the novel today, which have since been revised and are now published in English for the first time as The Blind Spot.
Starting with Don Quixote and his own experience as a writer, Cercas launches out into a consideration of the most challenging fiction of the last hundred years, from Kafka, Borges, Perec, Calvino and Kundera, to Sebald, Coetzee, Barnes, Foster Wallace and Knausgård. First, he defines and celebrates certain aspects of the novel in the twenty-first century which are also features of Cervantes' masterpiece: its essential irony and ambiguity, its total commitment to innovation, its natural, joyful and omnivorous desire to cram the whole world within its pages, and its intricate concern with fiction and reality. Then he moves on to consider the actual meaning of the novel, the uncertain and discredited role of the writer as intellectual, and the role of the reader in the creation of a form whose aim is to tell the truth by telling lies.
The result is a dazzling short book which provides a new interpretation of novel from Cervantes and Melville to the present, and which will be as stimulating for readers and writers of literature in the twenty-first century as E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel or Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel were in the last.
Javier Cercas was born in 1962. He is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books include Soldiers of Salamis (which sold more than a million copies worldwide, won six literary awards in Spain and was filmed by David Trueba), The Tenant and The Motive, The Speed of Light and The Anatomy of a Moment. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Barcelona.
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我必须承认,这本书的结尾处理得极为大胆和出乎意料。它没有选择那种皆大欢喜的传统收尾,也没有走上彻底的虚无主义道路,而是留下了一个既开放又充满回响的句点。这个结局并非简单的模棱两可,而是精准地回应了贯穿全书的核心疑问,但它将最终的解释权完全交还给了读者。在合上书的那一刻,我感到的是一种满足感,而非意犹未尽的遗憾。这种感觉很奇妙,仿佛作者给了我所有的原材料,最终的结论需要我自己去烧制。它挑战了我们对于“故事应该如何结束”的固有期望,迫使我们去思考:也许有些事情就是没有最终答案的,而接受这种不确定性本身,就是一种领悟。这本书无疑是一次需要投入时间精力的阅读体验,但回报是巨大的——它不仅提供了一个引人入胜的故事,更提供了一套全新的视角去审视我们习以为常的世界。这是一本值得反复咀嚼和深度讨论的佳作。
评分我对这本书的语言风格简直爱不释手,它有一种古典的韵味,却又充满了现代的敏锐。作者的用词考究,遣词造句之间流淌着一种近乎诗意的节奏感,尤其是在描述那些宏大的场景或关键的情感爆发点时,文字的力量被发挥到了极致。我发现自己经常停下来,不是因为情节需要,而是纯粹地想回味某一个段落的措辞。与那种追求简洁明快的当代写作不同,这里的文字是丰满的,富有层次感的,像是在用厚重的油彩作画,每一笔都精心调配过色彩和厚度。这种写作方式无疑对读者的耐心是一种考验,它要求你慢下来,去品尝每一个词语的重量和温度。但一旦你适应了这种步调,你会发现,这种沉浸感是无与伦比的。书中构建的世界观也极为宏大,涉及了哲学、历史乃至一些尖端的科学概念,但作者的处理方式非常巧妙,他没有将这些复杂的内容生硬地抛给读者,而是将它们自然地融入到角色的日常思考和困境之中,使得知识的获取过程变得流畅且引人入胜。
评分这本书真是让人耳目一新,它不像我过去读过的任何一本小说或非虚构作品。从翻开第一页开始,我就被那种独特的叙事节奏牢牢抓住了。作者似乎非常擅长营造一种悬而不决的氛围,每一个章节的结尾都像一个精心设计的钩子,让你忍不住想立刻知道接下来会发生什么。我尤其欣赏书中对于人物内心挣扎的细腻刻画。那些主角们看似做出了某种清晰的抉择,但在字里行间,你总能感受到隐藏在表面下的那些微妙的动摇和自我怀疑。这使得角色极其立体和真实,完全不是那种扁平化的“好人”或“坏人”的标签可以概括的。叙事的结构也很有意思,它不是线性推进的,而是像一个复杂的迷宫,偶尔会跳跃到过去,或者以一种看似不相干的视角切入,但最终所有的线索都会神奇地汇合在一起,形成一幅宏大且令人震撼的图景。读这本书的过程,与其说是在阅读一个故事,不如说是在参与一次智力上的探险,需要读者全神贯注地去捕捉那些散落在文本中的微小线索和象征意义。我猜测,即便是再次阅读,也会有新的发现,因为它的信息密度实在太高了。
评分这本书最令人称道之处,在于它那近乎完美的平衡感。它在处理严肃主题时,并未陷入沉闷的说教,反而巧妙地穿插了令人捧腹的幽默片段。这些笑点往往来自于角色在极端压力下做出的荒谬反应,或是对社会荒诞现象的辛辣讽刺。这种冷幽默的运用,极大地缓解了叙事本身的厚重感,使得读者可以在紧张的氛围中得到片刻的喘息,同时也加深了对角色复杂性的理解——原来那些在巨大命运面前挣扎的人,依然会为了生活中的小插曲而开怀大笑。此外,书中对环境和场景的描写也达到了一个极高的水准。无论是对一座未来城市的俯瞰,还是对某个偏僻角落光影的捕捉,作者的笔触都充满了画面感,仿佛可以直接走入书中的世界。我甚至能闻到那种特定的气味,感受到空气的湿度和温度,这种全方位的感官调动,是真正优秀的文学作品才具备的能力。
评分坦率地说,这本书的开篇部分对我来说是个不小的挑战,它需要我付出相当大的努力去理解作者试图建立的基础框架。开场的情景设置非常晦涩,充满了大量特定领域的术语和似乎毫无关联的背景信息,让人一度感到迷失。但正是这种初期的“抗拒”,反而激发了我的好奇心。我开始主动去查阅一些背景资料,并尝试在脑海中构建这些碎片。这种由被动接受转为主动探索的阅读体验,在近年的阅读中非常少见。一旦跨过了那道门槛,后面的阅读体验就如同高山滑雪般顺畅而刺激。书中对于社会结构和权力运作的剖析极其犀利,它不像那些直白的政治寓言,而是通过日常琐事和人际互动,不动声色地揭示了隐藏在光鲜外表下的冷酷真相。我特别关注了其中对于“集体记忆”和“个人责任”之间张力的探讨,作者展现出了对人性深层次矛盾的深刻洞察力,这部分内容引发了我长久的沉思,甚至影响了我对一些现实事件的看法。
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