William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.
His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in 'Of Human Bondage' , Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays.
During World War I, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service . He travelled all over the world, and made many visits to America. After World War II, Maugham made his home in south of France and continued to move between England and Nice till his death in 1965.
Cakes and Ale roused a storm of controversy when it was first published in 1930. It is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skillfully crafted study of freedom. It is also the book for which Maugham wanted most to be remembered.
毛姆写小说的一贯风格是要介绍某个人物的时候用此人平时的说话做事风格,外貌衣着,给人的印象以及旁人对他的评价让大家了解到这是怎么一个人,活灵活现。在寻书中他写的基尔,罗西,乔治勋爵等无外不是如此。也就是说毛姆给予这些人鲜明的个性描写。我读整本书总感觉主角之一的德...
評分罗西的魅力,大概正如毛姆在序中所提到的那样,是诚实。她虽然风流,但从不利用别人,她诚实遵从自己的内心,希望自己和别人都快乐,她第一次引诱“我”时说,“我们还是趁着现在尽情玩乐吧”。 罗西总是那么的无私。她乐于成全别人。她是那种地母式的女人。有着无比强大的内心...
評分初读毛姆,惊为天人,为他评价人性与社会现象时的准确、犀利,为他传统叙事手法的娴熟拿捏:这其中,必得回避和躲闪掉一些人物正常的反应、交代,旁敲侧击、闪转腾挪、吊足胃口又同时抒情款款。无论是学习叙事还是研究人物,毛姆都堪称标板,扎实、细腻,滴水不漏。 粗略来说...
評分初读毛姆,惊为天人,为他评价人性与社会现象时的准确、犀利,为他传统叙事手法的娴熟拿捏:这其中,必得回避和躲闪掉一些人物正常的反应、交代,旁敲侧击、闪转腾挪、吊足胃口又同时抒情款款。无论是学习叙事还是研究人物,毛姆都堪称标板,扎实、细腻,滴水不漏。 粗略来说...
評分我一向以为毛姆叔叔不好女色。本来大家都嘲笑说,毒舌如他,毕生不知看穿了多少伟大作家(如艾米莉•勃朗特、麦尔维尔etc.)homosexual的底细,最后却落得被自家侄儿扒出同性恋真相的下场,实乃自作孽也。何况看他小说里那些光怪陆离的女人,或放荡下贱,或惨白痴情,或自私...
Not my favorite
评分Inspired me a new description of Lee Pace: Moonlight-like sunshine(重點錯。。。
评分a modern woman
评分讀到最後,並不是個cakes and ale 的故事
评分讀書人的毒舌刻薄
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