Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. his close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality, philosophy and history, loves and friends, old and new, and vaudeville routines from the remote past. The mood turns more somber once they have returned to the Midwest and Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS and Chick himself nearly dies. Deeply insightful and always moving, Saul Bellow's new novel is a journey through love and memory. It is brave, dark, and bleakly funny: an elegy to friendship and to lives well (or badly) lived.
Author Info:
Saul Bellow
06/10/1915-04/05/2005
翻口毛边,书品近全新,比较可喜。 零四年读的中文译本,就想找原著看看,总算遂愿了。在BELLOW的作品里,这本大概只好算B+——A-的水准。
评分尽管詹姆斯·伍德盛赞贝娄在八十五高龄还能“如此丰沛地充满着他过去瀑布般的力量”,写下《拉维尔斯坦》,在写作的韧性上直追托尔斯泰与托马斯·曼( 自然,伍德是贝娄迷,听听这句论断就知道了——“索尔·贝娄或许是美国20世纪最伟大的小说家——这里的最伟大意味着最多产...
评分“实在很难想象像拉维尔斯坦这样的人已经与世长辞了。” 索尔贝娄发出的感叹。“因为在一片鸟儿的聒噪声中,听不见他的话。”现代的民主社会恰如这聒噪的丛林,那些卑下的鸟儿却在不停地发出噪音,将高贵灵魂的声音都淹没了。拉维尔斯坦不再了,而聒噪的鸟儿们却仍在继续。 “...
评分写作是一件极费精力之事,没有哪一类艺术家像作家一样伏在书桌上度过那么绵长的日夜。一种依靠脑力与勤奋才能完成的创作,将随着年岁遭遇衰退的困境。这是为何作家的巅峰之作往往出自四五十岁壮年之际,在步入花甲之年后开始急剧衰退。这同样解释了作为作家的村上春树需要每日...
评分Oct 9, 2005 12:42 AM from selbsterhaltung 一批小资产阶级的典型们,为隐藏的畏惧所支配,每个人都有一座虚荣的圣坛,图谋说服别人认可他心目中自己的形象;毫无趣味的,算计的个性(这个术语要比 “灵魂”好——你能与个性打交道,然而思考这些个别的灵魂,却是你...
the life and death of a Jewish scholar
评分Now in retrospect, this book seems to the beginning of my recently-ended obsession.
评分the life and death of a Jewish scholar
评分结尾有点小失望 "every personal discussion turned finally into good, clean, nihilistic fun." She had been one of Ravelstein's learned groupies. She was good at Greek. To study with R you had to read your Xenophon, Thucydides, and Plato in Greek.
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