具体描述
The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred.
Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’s life within a displaced community and his fierce ambition at school. He describes how, on scholarship at Oxford, homesickness and depression struck with great force; the ways in which Naipaul’s first wife helped him to cope and their otherwise fraught marriage; and Naipaul’s struggles throughout subsequent uncertainties in England, including his twenty-five-year-long affair.
Naipaul’s extraordinary gift—producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and nonfiction—is most of all born of a forceful, visionary impulse, whose roots French traces with a sympathetic brilliance and devastating insight.
作者简介
帕特里克•弗伦奇，作家，历史学家，1966年生于英格兰，曾在爱丁堡大学研习英美文学。他出版有《自由或死亡》（Liberty or Death）、《西藏，西藏》(Tibet,Tibet)等作品。他曾获得泰晤士报青年作家奖，英国皇家学会文学奖，毛姆文学奖等多项大奖。
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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.
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评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...
评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...
评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...
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