具体描述
Expecting to be inducted into the army to fight in World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Saul Bellow's first novel documents Joseph's psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.
Editorial Reviews
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“One of the most honest pieces of testimony on the psychology of a whole generation who have grown up during the Depression and the war,” –Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
“In this imaginative journal, set against fresh and vivid scenes in Chicago, the author has outlined what must seem to many others an uncannily accurate delineation of themselves.” –The New York Times
“An extraordinary first novel.” –The Observer
作者简介
Saul Bellow was praised for his vision, his ear for detail, his humor, and the masterful artistry of his prose. Born of Russian Jewish parents in Lachine, Quebec in 1915, he was raised in Chicago. He received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. During the Second World War he served in the Merchant Marines.
His first two novels, Dangling Man (1944) and The Victim (1947) are penetrating, Kafka-like psychological studies. In 1948 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent two years in Paris and traveling in Europe, where he began his picaresque novel The Adventures of Augie March, which went on to win the National Book Award for fiction in 1954. His later books of fiction include Seize the Day (1956); Henderson the Rain King (1959); Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968); Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970); Humboldt's Gift (1975), which won the Pulitzer Prize; The Dean's December (1982); More Die of Heartbreak (1987); Theft (1988); The Bellarosa Connection (1989);The Actual (1996); Ravelstein (2000); and, most recently, Collected Stories(2001). Bellow has also produced a prolific amount of non-fiction, collected in To Jerusalem and Back, a personal and literary record of his sojourn in Israel during several months in 1975, and It All Adds Up, a collection of memoirs and essays.
Bellow's many awards include the International Literary Prize for Herzog, for which he became the first American to receive the prize; the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, the highest literary distinction awarded by France to non-citizens; the B'nai B'rith Jewish Heritage Award for "excellence in Jewish Literature"; and America's Democratic Legacy Award of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the first time this award has been made to a literary personage. In 1976 Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work."
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我对书中人物的刻画方式感到非常新奇，也带着一丝难以言喻的震撼。他不是那种传统意义上的英雄或反派，更像是一团不断变幻的气体，你试图把握住他清晰的轮廓，却发现每一次触碰都只是虚空。作者擅长使用大量的意象来烘托人物的心境，比如反复出现的雨天、封闭的房间、以及那些模糊不清的过往片段，它们共同编织成一个巨大的心理迷宫。读者必须主动地参与到解读的过程中去，因为作者几乎不提供明确的答案，所有的情感张力都蕴含在那份“未说出口”的沉默之中。这种写作手法无疑是对读者的智力提出挑战，但回报也是丰厚的——当你终于捕捉到某一瞬间人物情绪的真实颤动时，那种共鸣感是极为深刻的。整体而言，这本书展现了一种高度的文学自觉性，它拒绝迎合大众的阅读习惯，坚持用最私密、最内在的视角去审视外部世界，使得整部作品散发出一种冷峻而迷人的气质。
评分这本小说的开篇，着实让人感到一种莫名的压抑与不安。作者以一种近乎神经质的笔触，描绘了一个在现代都市中游荡的灵魂，他似乎与周遭的一切都格格不入，像一个被遗忘的幽灵，穿梭于钢筋水泥的丛林之中。叙事节奏缓慢得有些令人焦灼，大量的内心独白充斥着对生活意义的追问和对人际关系的疏离感，仿佛每一个字都浸透着主人公深沉的孤独。这种孤独并非外界强加的，而更像是一种自我选择的囚禁，他将自己置于一个旁观者的位置，冷眼看着世界的喧嚣与忙碌，却始终无法真正参与其中。那种“悬而未决”的状态，像一根始终没有被剪断的细线，拉扯着读者的心弦，让人不禁去探究，究竟是什么样的经历，将一个人的存在感磨损至此？我花了很长时间才适应这种近乎意识流的叙事方式，它更像是在阅读一本日记，而非传统意义上的小说，充满了晦涩的隐喻和跳跃的思绪，但正是这种碎片化的表达，精准地捕捉到了当代人那种若即若离的生存状态。
评分从结构上讲，这部作品展现出一种令人赞叹的松散与紧密并存的悖论。故事线索极其稀薄，几乎可以忽略不计，它更像是一系列场景和心理状态的并置，而非一个线性的叙事过程。然而，正是这种看似随意堆砌的片段，通过某种潜意识的关联，在读者心中构建起一个完整的世界观。我尤其欣赏作者在处理时间感上的手法，过去、现在和未来仿佛被揉碎了，在主人公的意识中不断地相互渗透和干扰，这使得阅读过程充满了探险的乐趣。每一次翻页，都可能将你带入一个完全不同的时间维度或情感层次。这种非线性的叙事，要求读者必须时刻保持警醒，全神贯注地去捕捉那些细微的转折和回响。对于那些习惯于情节驱动型小说的读者来说，这可能需要一个适应期，但一旦你进入了作者设定的“场域”，就会发现它在结构上的精巧布局，丝毫不逊于任何传统叙事的高手。
评分读完此书，我久久无法平复内心的波澜，它没有提供任何慰藉或宏大的主题宣言，剩下的只是一个深刻的问题，一个萦绕不去的回声。它揭示了现代社会中个体存在的某种结构性困境，即我们被赋予了过多的自由选择，反而失去了行动的明确方向，最终导致了普遍性的漂浮感和无依感。这本书像一面晦暗的镜子，映照出我们在追求效率和成就的洪流中，那些被忽略和压抑的“无用”部分——那些非功利性的思考、那些不被社会认可的情感波动。它迫使我们正视自己内心深处那些“悬而未决”的议题，那些我们试图用忙碌来掩盖的虚空。这不是一本读起来“轻松”的书，但它绝对是一本“重要”的书，因为它挑战了我们对于“正常生活”的既定观念，并以一种近乎残酷的坦诚，邀请我们进入那个复杂、幽暗却又无比真实的心灵世界，进行一次深刻的自我审视。
评分这部作品的语言风格，简直是一场对精确性的极致追求，同时又充满了诗意的挥洒。作者似乎对每一个词汇都进行了反复的推敲，使得文字本身具备了雕塑般的质感。它既有哲学思辨的严谨，又兼具散文的流畅与优美，这种混合体使得阅读体验极为丰富。语句的长度变化多端，有时是短促、断裂的句子，像心跳的漏拍，表达着瞬间的惊恐或顿悟；而有时则是冗长、层层递进的长句，构建出一种近乎催眠的语感，将人卷入主人公无尽的沉思之中。我个人认为，这本书的价值很大程度上体现在其语言层面，它成功地超越了单纯的信息传达，达到了对特定心境的审美重塑。它不是在“描述”孤独，而是在“呈现”孤独的语言形态，这需要作者对母语有着非凡的掌控力，也要求读者必须用心去品味那些词语之间的微小张力。
评分will never have anything to do with you Mr.Bellow.
评分Circa 1942. Painting a generation with intellectual nacissicism (Tu As Raison Aussi) and obsession with French existensialism ("If I were a little less obstinate, I would confess failure and say that I do not know what to do with my freedom.""...the 'ideal construction' is the one that unlocks the imprisoning self."); and situational misogyny.
评分自由好累，为自由而固执往往最后失去了自身，只剩下固执。或许在绝望那刻不甘地妥协命运，和生活和解，反而会赢回了自身。唉，那一刻自己心境是平和了，唉，至少平和了。
评分will never have anything to do with you Mr.Bellow.
评分贝娄的作品我还是比较喜欢的。
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