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帕特裏剋•弗倫奇，作傢，曆史學傢，1966年生於英格蘭，曾在愛丁堡大學研習英美文學。他齣版有《自由或死亡》（Liberty or Death）、《西藏，西藏》(Tibet,Tibet)等作品。他曾獲得泰晤士報青年作傢奬，英國皇傢學會文學奬，毛姆文學奬等多項大奬。
- 傳記
- V.S.Naipaul
- 奈保爾
- 英語
- 日港颱歐覓
- 哲學
- 傳記/迴憶錄
Since V. S. Naipaul left his Caribbean birthplace at the age of seventeen, his improbable life has followed the global movement of peoples, whose preeminent literary chronicler he has become. In The World Is What It Is, Patrick French offers the first authoritative biography of the controversial Nobel laureate, whose only stated ambition was greatness as a writer, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred.
Beginning with a richly detailed portrait of Naipaul’s childhood in colonial Trinidad, French gives us the boy born to an Indian family, the displaced soul in a displaced community, who by dint of talent and ambition finds the only imaginable way out: a scholarship to Oxford. London in the 1950s offers hope and his first literary success, but homesickness and depression almost defeat Vidia, his narrow escape aided by Patricia Hale, an Englishwoman who will devote herself to his work and well-being. She will stand by him, sometimes tenuously, for more than four decades, even as Naipaul embarks on a twenty-four-year affair, which will awaken half-dead passions and feed perhaps his greatest wave of dizzying creativity. Amid this harrowing emotional life, French traces the course of the fierce visionary impulse underlying Naipaul’s singular power, a gift to produce masterpieces of fiction and nonfiction.
Informed by exclusive access to V. S. Naipaul’s private papers and personal recollections, and by great feeling for his formidable body of work, French’s revelatory biography does full justice to an enigmatic genius.
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奈保尔传记书名里的“The World is What it is”中文翻译为“世事如斯”，这个“斯”看起来无所指，孔子的那句“逝者如斯夫”，前面有“子在川上曰”，所以“斯”说的是“川”，而“世事如斯”的“斯”，初读，就不知道“斯”究竟所指者何了。 看英文，大体明白，世事就是它所...
評分A great biography. For me, the effect of this book is: an idol dies as the writer is born. At least, we come to understand the creative process of the writer and his shameless sacrifice of people around him for the sake of writing.
評分包括我自己在内的许多作家都欠维迪亚·苏莱普拉萨德·奈保尔（Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul）的情。他开启了文学的多种可能性，找到了新的途径去观看、描述世界，特别是非西方世界。对于他的崇拜者来说，想不去模仿他简直难上加难。刻意模仿自己尊重的作家也许是一种真诚的恭...
評分第一次接触有关奈保尔的记述，是那本少受关注的《维迪亚爵士的影子》，里面模模糊糊的构筑一个对世界不满的作家——众所周知，越是持这种世界观，越受西方主流文化的赞赏。不过，奈保尔似乎有点意外，他的出身与成长都是一个错误的巧合，造就他双重否定人格的同时，也让他缺乏...
評分A great biography. For me, the effect of this book is: an idol dies as the writer is born. At least, we come to understand the creative process of the writer and his shameless sacrifice of people around him for the sake of writing.
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