The Fall of the Pagoda 在线电子书 图书标签: 張愛玲 张爱玲 小說 English 現代文學 英文 小说 Hong-Kong
发表于2024-05-09
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不得不说爱玲的英文真是蛮晦涩的。
评分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.
评分i'm lovin' it
评分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。
评分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.
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
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.
翻译非常好,简直想不到原文是英文。难怪张爱玲要说华美的袍上面都是虱子,家庭实在太压抑了,难怪张那么爱红楼,她自己的家也差不多类似,簪缨大家,不肖子弟,三四代后,内里也尽上来了。一切都是钱的矛盾,父母各自提防,生怕多花了自己的钱,不但账单,连孩子的培养教育费...
评分 评分 评分《雷峰塔》与《易经》成书于上世纪60年代,四十岁的张爱玲又一次剖开她的童年生活,把血淋淋的内瓤毫不留情地展露在读者面前。经过了二十年时光的滤镜,往昔种种不仅没有变得暗淡模糊,反而在一次次的回忆中放大得愈加清晰。很少有人能用这样看似平淡实则令人惊心的笔触去描...
评分认为是张爱玲的自传之一,通作在讲她和弟弟如何被父亲忽略地,不幸福地长大,为什么结局让弟弟突然间死去,可能在她的内心里,弟弟死了胜过活着。 她清楚地描述了如果被后母和父亲毒打,父亲如何扬言要拿枪打死她,她如何在父亲和后母的忽视下跑到母亲那里,到了母亲那里也没...
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