The Fall of the Pagoda

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The Fall of the Pagoda, the first of two semi-autobiographical novels written originally by Eileen Chang in English, depicts in gripping detail her childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai, while The Book of Change revolves around her wartime student days in Hong Kong. The Fall of the Pagoda introduces a young girl (called Lute) growing up amid many family entanglements with her divorced mother and spinster aunt during the 1930s in Shanghai’s International Settlement. Both novels shed light on the construction of selfhood in Chang’s other novels, through lengthy discussions of Chang’s difficult relationship with her selfishly demanding mother as well as of intricate dynamics in the extended families who emerged from aristocratic households of the late Qing Dynasty. While the main characters belong to the new Republican period, their worldviews and everyday life are still haunted by the shadows of the past.

Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in mainland China. She was the most popular writer in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II, with English and Chinese stories focusing on human frailties rather than nationalist propaganda. For her non-committal politics and idiosyncrasies, she was boycotted by fellow writers after the war and forced to the margins of literary respectability.

"The Fall of the Pagoda begins as a comedy of manners and gradually evolves into a gothic thriller… Contradictions and aberrations are the norm in Lute’s family. This is a household immersed in a decaying grandeur amid the intoxicating smell of opium, but it never hesitates to pursue new and exotic things from automobiles to movies. Desolation and decadence rule. Lute’s father indulges himself in debauchery while her mother could not wait to become a Nora of New China. Nevertheless, both share the disposition to squander family fortune ruthlessly; children are their last concern. The Russian Revolution, the creation of Manchukuo, and the Second Sino-Japanese War take place one after another in the novel, but except for momentary disturbances, nothing affects the family which is already engulfed by its own corruption." — From the Introduction by David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University

出版者:Hong Kong University Press
作者:Eileen Chang
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页数:288
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出版时间:2010-04-15
价格:USD 17.95
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9789888028368
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Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in mainland China. These previously unpublished, semi-autobiographical novels depict in gripping detail her childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai, as well as her student days in Hong Kong during World War II, and shed light on the construction of selfhood in her other novels.

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五月十二日买回来之后,才刚刚读完。因为在写新的小说,同时在读着七八本书。每次下班之后之后是先写,写不下去的时候多数也困得睁不开眼,方才会把《雷峰塔》打开。 前些日子,刚读完杜拉斯的《夏夜十点半钟》。那些精密的镜头式的切换让人惊诧,而《雷峰塔》的架势更足。它...  

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她夹在中美之间两方都想讨好却又克不住自己本性的句子多么痛苦迷人啊

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It is completely a bore. No wonder Eileen Chang lost her charm in the West. Her attempt of luring Western readers by constantly adding Chinese elements in a rigid way to which I believe a great many foreigners have the faintest clue is fatal.

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她夹在中美之间两方都想讨好却又克不住自己本性的句子多么痛苦迷人啊

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不要把人和人之间的那灵犀一点看得太重。那可能是想象,也可能是幻觉。

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看不出诗意,也认不出张爱玲。

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