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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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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...
評分真实的人生总是比虚构的人物更加动人，让人感叹唏嘘。耐保尔似乎个人名声不是很棒，对妻子不忠，嫖妓，抛弃跟了自己二十几年屡次堕胎的情妇，最终还是抓住机会获得了适合自己的另一半。而细读他的人生道路，其实每个选择都情有可原。在适合的时间选择了适合的人，始终忠于自己...
評分关于书名，译者周成林先生“在极为精细的翻译工作中，他认为《世事如斯》这一书名过于文雅，而奈保尔的文字以简洁平白著称，因此《世事如此》更切合传主的人生及其文字风格。” ——我猜测，编辑选择“如斯”的原因大概是：“世事”这个词也文雅。如果译者想搭配“简洁平白”...
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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