具体描述
In Sicily is a loving take on an extraordinary island, based on Norman Lewis’s sixty-year-long fascination with all things Sicilian. Few places on earth have escaped the singular eye of Norman Lewis, but always, in the course of his long career, he has come back to Sicily. From his first wartime visit – to a land untouched since the Middle Ages – through his frequent returns, he has watched the island and its people as they have changed over the years. In Sicily is dedicated to a Sicilian journalist killed by a Mafia bomb, he rarely lets us forget the presence of organized crime.
We benefit from his friendships with policemen, journalists and common people. Moreover, he writes beautifully of landscape and language, of his memories of his first father-in-law (professional gambler, descendant of princes and member of the Unione Siciliana), of Sicily's changing sexual mores, of the effects of African immigration, of Palermo and its ruined palaces – and of strange superstitions, of witches and bandits and murder.
作者简介
Norman Lewis's early childhood, as recalled in Jackdaw Cake (1985), was spent partly with his Welsh spiritualist parents in Enfield, North London, and partly with his eccentric aunts in Wales. Forgoing a place at university for lack of funds, he used the income from wedding photography and various petty trading to finance travels to Spain, Italy and the Balkans, before being approached by the Colonial Office to spy for them with his camera in Yemen. He moved to Cuba in 1939, but was recalled for duty in the Intelligence Corps during the Second World War. It was from this that Norman Lewis's masterpiece, Naples '44, emerged, a resurrection of his wartime diary only finally published in 1978. Before that came a number of novels and travel books, notably A Dragon Apparent (1951) and Golden Earth (1952), both of which were best sellers in their day. His novel The Volcanoes Above Us, based on personal experiences in Central America, sold six million copies in paperback in Russia and The Honoured Society (1964), a non-fiction study of the Sicilian Mafia, was serialised in six instalments by the New Yorker.
Norman Lewis wrote thirteen novels and thirteen works of non-fiction, mostly travel books, but he regarded his life's major achievement to be the reaction to an article written by him entitled Genocide in Brazil, published in The Sunday Times in 1968. This led to a change in the Brazilian law relating to the treatment of Indians, and to the formation of Survival International, the influential international organisation which campaigns for the rights of tribal peoples. He later published a very successful book called The Missionaries (1988) which is set amongst the Indians of Central and Latin America.
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这本书的叙事视角给我留下了极其深刻的印象，它仿佛拥有一种超越时空的能力，能够自由地穿梭于过去与现在之间，不动声色地揭示出历史对当下生活的深远影响。这种非线性的结构安排，反而让故事的脉络更加清晰和有力，每一次对往昔的回溯，都像是为当前的情境增加了一层厚重的解读维度。作者对于历史事件的引用和融入，处理得极其高明，绝非生硬的背景介绍，而是与人物的命运紧密地交织在一起，历史不再是死板的年代记录，而是鲜活的、仍在呼吸的力量。我特别欣赏作者在处理“记忆”这一主题时的细腻手法——记忆是破碎的、主观的，但又是构建自我认同的基石。全书弥漫着一种淡淡的怀旧情调，但这种怀旧并非沉溺于过去，而是一种带着清醒认识的深情回望。这种复杂的情绪处理，使得整部作品的厚度大大增加，它让人在阅读的过程中，不断地进行着自我反思和联想，体验感是极其丰富和充实的。
评分这本书真是一场感官的盛宴，作者的笔触细腻得仿佛能捕捉到空气中漂浮的每一粒尘埃。我完全沉浸在那片土地的氛围里，仿佛自己正踏着被阳光炙烤过的石板路，耳边是悠长悠远的西西里方言。文字构建的画面感极强，那些古老的建筑、错落有致的街道，以及空气中弥漫着的柠檬和海盐的味道，都活灵活现地呈现在我的脑海中。叙事节奏把握得恰到好处，时而如夏日午后慵懒的微风，徐徐展开；时而又像突如其来的热浪，将你裹挟进某种强烈的情感冲突之中。我特别欣赏作者对于当地生活细节的捕捉，那些不经意的闲谈、邻里间的互动，都透露出一种根植于土地的生命力与韧性。读完之后，我立刻产生了一种强烈的冲动，想要收拾行囊，去亲身感受那种热烈而又神秘的地中海气息。这本书不仅仅是关于一个地点的记录，更像是作者用文字为我们精心准备的一份邀请函，邀请我们一同赴一场关于美、关于历史、关于人性的深度探访。它在不经意间渗透进读者的内心，让人在合上书页之后，仍然能感受到那份独特的、带着阳光味道的余温。
评分这部作品的语言风格着实令人眼前一亮，充满了老派的文学魅力，但又绝不晦涩难懂，是一种恰到好处的雅致。作者的用词考究，仿佛每一个词汇都经过了精心的锤炼，使得文字本身就具有了音乐般的韵律感。我尤其喜欢那些长句的运用，它们层层递进，结构严谨，带着一种古典的叙事美感，读起来酣畅淋漓，有一种品尝醇厚美酒的感觉。与许多追求快节奏的现代小说不同，这本书鼓励读者慢下来，去品味文字的质地，去感受时光的流逝。它不像是在讲述一个故事，更像是在进行一场娓娓道来的私人倾诉，那种真诚感是扑面而来的。书中的意象运用也十分高明，比如对光影的描绘，对某种特定气味的捕捉，都精准地烘托了人物的心境和环境氛围。读完后，我有一种强烈的冲动去重温某些段落，不是因为没看懂，而是因为那些句子本身就是值得反复咀嚼的艺术品。这本书无疑是对文学性表达的一种致敬。
评分不得不说，阅读体验是一次充满惊喜的探索之旅。作者的叙事结构非常巧妙，采用了多层次的线索交织推进的方式，使得故事既有宏大的历史背景作为支撑，又不失个体命运的曲折与张力。每一次翻页，都像是在揭开一个尘封已久的秘密，悬念的设置高明且自然，绝非那种刻意为之的俗套伎俩。情节的推进充满了张力，人物的塑造更是达到了令人惊叹的深度。那些性格鲜明、活得有滋有味的“当地人”，他们的坚韧、他们的幽默、他们的矛盾性，都让我深深地感到共鸣。我仿佛能听到他们高亢的争论声，感受到他们面对生活变迁时的无奈与坚持。整本书的情感基调复杂而丰富，时而让人会心一笑，时而又被命运的无常所触动。这本书真正做到了“予人玫瑰，手有余香”，它带来的思考是持久的，关于传统与现代的冲突，关于家族的羁绊，以及个体在历史洪流中的定位。它成功地避开了旅游指南式的肤浅描摹，而是深入到灵魂的肌理之中，进行了一次深刻的挖掘与呈现。
评分坦率地说，我一开始对这类带有强烈地域色彩的文学作品抱持着一丝谨慎的态度，生怕落入刻板印象的窠臼。然而，这本书彻底打消了我的顾虑。它成功地在展现地方特色的同时，探讨了更为普世的人类情感主题——爱、失落、身份认同的挣扎。作者似乎拥有某种魔力，可以将看似日常的琐事，提升到哲学思辨的高度。故事中的冲突并非都是外在的剧烈对抗，更多的是内心深处对自我价值的确认与否定的拉锯战。人物的成长轨迹是如此真实可信，他们面对困境时的挣扎和最终的选择，都充满了人性的复杂与光辉。这本书没有提供简单的答案或廉价的安慰，而是将那些难以言喻的、关于“活着”的沉重议题，温柔而有力地呈现出来。它需要读者投入时间与心力去细细品味，但回报是丰厚的——你会发现自己不仅了解了一个地方，更深层地理解了人性中那些共通的柔软与坚硬。这是一部需要被认真对待的文学作品。
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