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In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that they can scarcely believe that the Empire is ending.
In The Middle Passage , Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movie audience greeting Humphrey Bogart’s appearance with cries of “That is man!” He ventures into a Trinidad slum so insalubrious that the locals call it the Gaza Strip. He follows a racially charged election campaign in British Guiana (now Guyana) and marvels at the Gallic pretension of Martinique society, which maintains the fiction that its roads are extensions of France’s routes nationales. And throughout he relates the ghastly episodes of the region’s colonial past and shows how they continue to inform its language, politics, and values. The result is a work of novelistic vividness and dazzling perspicacity that displays Naipaul at the peak of his powers.
V.S.奈保尔(V.S.Naipaul):
英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭,50年代进入牛津大学攻读英国文学,毕业后开始写作。著有《米格尔街》、《毕司沃斯先生的房子》、《自由国度》、《游击队员》、《大河湾》、“印度三部曲”、《非洲的假面剧》等。2001年,获诺贝尔文学奖。
1960年九月,在英国生活了几年之后,奈保尔重访特立尼达,回到了他出生的地方。在三个月的时间里,奈保尔访问了加勒比地区的几个国家,并把自己的所见所闻所思所想集结起来,汇成了他的第一本游记作品,也就是这本《中途航道》(《重访加勒比》)。作为奈保尔的第一部游...
评分 评分《重访加勒比》是本差点被我放弃了的书,因为它的开篇真的很啰嗦。可是捱过了奈保尔在“中途航道”上飘飘摇摇的自说自话,等到他一踏上特立尼达坚实的土地时,那个仅凭游记就可以享誉无数的小说家奈保尔,算是回来了。 《重访加勒比》是奈保尔的第一本游记,写在1962年。三...
评分1960-61年,28岁的奈保尔游历独立前夕的加勒比海五国:他的故乡英属特立尼达、英属圭亚那、荷属苏里南、法属马提尼克、英属牙买加,撰写他第一本游记。和常人对加勒比海的印象不同,奈保尔将观察重点放在殖民历史遗留和种族问题上,类似民族志写作。他的第一次尝试有些粗疏,一...
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