"Strait is the Gate," first published in 1909 in France as "La Porte etroite," is a novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism. --- Andr Gide (1869 - 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in between the two World Wars. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, without at the same time betraying one's values... --- "For Gide was very different from the picture most people had of him. He was the very reverse of an aesthete, and, as a writer, had nothing in common with the doctrine of art for art's sake. He was a man deeply involved in a specific struggle, a specific fight, who never wrote a line which he did not think was of service to the cause he had at heart." (Francois Mauriac)
安德烈·纪德(1869-1951),法国作家,出生于巴黎,一八九一年发表第一部小说,开始写作生涯。一九〇九年参与创办《新法兰西评论》。一九四七年获诺贝尔文学奖。代表作有小说《背德者》、《窄门》、《田园交响曲》、《梵蒂冈地窖》、《伪币制造者》,散文《地粮》、《刚果之行》等。
纪德是现代西方文学史、思想史上的重要人物。他广泛关注宗教、爱情、家庭、性、政治等各类问题,热烈歌吟解放与自由,以赤诚之心去担当人性中的最大可能。他是时代的见证人,更是时代的创造者,法国文坛的后起之秀如萨特、加缪等,都曾将纪德视为自己的精神导师。同时,纪德也称得上二十世纪最具争议、最令人费解的作家之一。他的“纵情”、他的“颠覆”,曾一度使他“声名狼藉”;但另一方面,他内心中同样真挚的是一种对于“神圣生活”的需要的肯定。他对同性恋的辩护、在道德伦理上的特别主张至今仍是人们关注和讨论的焦点。
译者桂裕芳(1930- ),湖北武汉人。北京大学法语系教授,著名翻译家。获法国教育部颁发的教育勋章。译著主要有:普鲁斯特《追忆似水年华》(第二卷)、雨果《九三年》、萨特《呕吐》、布托《变》、莫里亚克《爱的荒漠》等。
法国文学有个特点,总是在探寻“幸福到底是什么”。比如普鲁斯特穷尽一生得出结论“幸福就是点点滴滴的回忆”。 法国作家纪德笔下的文学作品是完全对立与分裂的,不过两条截然不同的道路最后还是通向了一个顶点——幸福。 《背德者》《窄门》《田园交响曲》是法国作...
评分别提哪些高深莫测的字眼了 放在现在,就是俩一见钟情之后网恋失败的故事 故事很平淡,是老一套的那种平铺直叙然后最后十页拿出猛料摧毁读者小心灵的路子 基本上第一百页达到准高潮,最后一页升之巅峰 巅峰在哪里? 不是主人公的伤感痛苦什么的,也不是什么...
评分卡夫卡有个很牛逼的法律门前的说法,上学的时候根本不懂,觉得很莫名,但是后来看周房正行那个关于地铁猥亵案的片子,一下子打通任督二脉懂到一塌糊涂 看完这本书已经过了好几个月,突然想到,窄门这一部,可以说纪德就是把卡夫卡的法律之门变成了一个人在“爱”的门前徘徊...
评分《窄门》是一本伤感的书,从头至尾都是伤感,少孤早独的热罗姆和母亲与人私奔的表姐阿丽莎,自幼青梅竹马,随着年龄的增加,感情愈发深厚,但,最终却不能结合。 “你们要努力进窄门”《路德福音》里的一句话,表达着宗教信仰里的严肃性、认真性和艰辛性。但,这句话却使...
评分法国文学除了加缪,其他人一直缺乏好感,杜拉斯也很不错,但是太感性了,没有那种醍醐灌顶的给力的感觉。 这本小破书,一百多页,是纪德代表作,这样的书能拿到诺贝尔文学奖,再次让我震惊,之前是《尼尔斯骑鹅历险记》和《蝇王》让人震惊,前者是童话故事,后者是当代寓言。 ...
“What are you waiting for to marry?" "To have forgotten a great many things" "Which are you hoping to forget soon?" "Which I do not hope ever to forget." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The evening came slowly up like a grey tide, reaching and flooding each object which seemed to come to life again in the gloom and repeat in a whisper the story of its past. 读完了,我好压抑,虽然英译本的语言很出彩。
评分“What are you waiting for to marry?" "To have forgotten a great many things" "Which are you hoping to forget soon?" "Which I do not hope ever to forget." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The evening came slowly up like a grey tide, reaching and flooding each object which seemed to come to life again in the gloom and repeat in a whisper the story of its past. 读完了,我好压抑,虽然英译本的语言很出彩。
评分没有体会到平淡中的惊喜
评分没有体会到平淡中的惊喜
评分没有体会到平淡中的惊喜