阿拉文德·阿迪加一九七四年出生于印度海港城市马德拉斯,后移居澳大利亚。毕业后曾任《时代周刊》驻印度通讯记者,并为《金融时报》、《独立报》、《星期日泰晤士报》等英国媒体撰稿。现居孟买。《白老虎》是其处女作。
Aravind Adiga's extraordinary and brilliant first novel takes the form of a series of letters to Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, from Balram Halwai, the Bangalore businessman who is the self-styled “White Tiger” of the title. Bangalore is the Silicon Valley of the subcontinent, and on the eve of a state visit by Jiabao, our entrepreneur Halwai wishes to impart something of the new India to the Chinese premier - “out of respect for the love of liberty shown by the Chinese people, and also in the belief that the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, mobile phone usage and drug abuse”.
Halwai's lesson about the new India is drawn from the rags-to-riches story of his own life. For Halwai, the son of a rural rickshaw-puller, is from the “Darkness”: “Please understand, Your Excellency, that India is two countries in one: an India of Light, and an India of Darkness. The ocean brings light to my country. Every place on the map of India near the ocean is well-off. But the river brings darkness to India - the black river.”
The black river is the Ganges, beloved of the sari-and-spices tourist image of India. (“No! - Mr Jiabao, I urge you not to dip in the Ganga, unless you want your mouth full of faeces, straw, soggy parts of human bodies, buffalo carrion, and seven different kinds of industrial acids.”)
At first, this novel seems like a straightforward pulled-up-by-your-bootstraps tale, albeit given a dazzling twist by the narrator's sharp and satirical eye for the realities of life for India's poor. (“In the old days there were 1,000 castes...in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies, and Men with Small Bellies.”) But as the narrative draws the reader further in, and darkens, it becomes clear that Adiga is playing a bigger game. For The White Tiger stands at the opposite end of the spectrum of representations of poverty from those images of doe-eyed children that dominate our electronic media - that sentimentalise poverty and even suggest that there may be something ennobling in it. Halwai's lesson in The White Tiger is that poverty creates monsters, and he himself is just such a monster.
This is first book I ever read about India, which recommended by a financial theory professor. But I don't think he implies us to follow the strategy of Balram to become an "entrepreneur" by murdering his master, taking possession of his money which suppose...
评分真好啊,1974年出生的人,就已经能写出这么好的小说。 印度真是不可小觑。 有意思的是小说竟然是一个黑手起家的企业家写给中国总理的七封长信。 不难看出,年轻的作者甚至认为过去的那种种姓阶级制度都比现在这样“吃人与被吃”的社会状态要幸福美满得多。就像,呵呵,其实...
评分我对印度是有特殊情感的,也不知道为什么。我在大学四年外加毕业闲适在家的一年里,独自背包去了5次印度。我能说简单的日常印地语,我亲密接触过印度社会的边缘受难者,我喜欢看一切印度人写的书和写印度的书,我对印度历史的了解远多于中国历史,我一直在努力学习印度文化相关...
评分“印度不会发生革命,这个国家的人民仍然会在等待,等待别处过来的一场战争来解放他们。革命绝不会发生,每个人都必须创建自己的圣城” 我想这些话用来描述中国目前的现状也很准确。或许中国真的不需要改变什么,我们这些年轻人正在接受着目前的现实,试图适应这个社会。的确...
评分an alternative of "slumdog millionaire"
评分an alternative of "slumdog millionaire"
评分文中的读者是温家宝;可能原因:印度和中国同属亚洲国家,存在一定竞争关系(narrator对中国态度不明);无产阶级政党,本质上没有caste; 小说中首句话强调了,有些话只能用英语说得清楚,暗示了读者应该是印度的中产阶级(具有良好的英语水平),因为narrator本质上希望让这些人读懂; 解读方向:”the Rooster Coop ”文化,caster层面;”the Jungle Rule” 经济层面,推断故事发生时代+当时印度经济发展情况,揭示发展背后的黑暗面,”the Black Fort”;殖民遗留痕迹,不可接近,政治层面的专权。 作者描绘了subaltern的生存困境。同时通过Balram动物化的描绘,给upper class警示,同时也是对全球新自由资本主义的警示。
评分Ashok這角色的設定有點曖昧
评分能看出作者的記者背景,作為全球資本主義批判,小說的寓意未免太清晰,文字也缺乏修理。只能說他的敘事聲音太有效,並具真實的觀察基礎。
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