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发表于2024-06-27
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In 1950, after winning a scholarship from the government of Trinidad, V. S. Naipaul, aged seventeen, left home for the first time. Following a two-week journey by steamer, he arrived in Oxford, England, a world utterly removed from the one he had longed to escape and to which he would never really return. This extraordinary collection of letters gives us, as nothing published previously has, an intimate view of Naipaul's formative years.
It is a story of family members oceans apart, clinging to one another against the sadness of dislocation and isolation: The young Naipaul, desperate not for a degree but to become a writer and make his way in the world. His beloved sister Kamla, anxious and bewildered, away at school in India. And his melancholy but loving father, whose own broken dream of succeeding as a writer would be realized in the singular achievement of his son.
With the satisfactions of a novel, Between Father and Son portrays a deeply affecting family drama, even as it bears witness to the flowering of one of the great literary geniuses of the century.
V.S.奈保尔(1932年-),英国移民作家。出生于西印度群岛特立尼达的一个印度家庭。奈保尔在西方享有盛誉,他和拉什迪、石黑一雄并称“英国移民文学三雄”。其作品曾获毛姆奖、布克奖等不少重要文学奖、布克奖等不少重要文学奖,2001年荣获诺贝尔文学奖,这表明他“当代经典作家”地位的确立。重要作品有《米格尔街》、《河湾》、《抵达之谜》等。作品主要写印度、非洲、加勒比地区人的生存状况,表现了后殖民时代的世态人心。奈保尔是继康拉德之后又一位伟大的编年史作家。
看了这样的父子家书,如果不是事先知道奈保尔是炸药奖得主真是觉得普通得不能再普通了,但就是这样普通的情感才是最打动人的,他们有着跟我们很多人一样的欲望和诉求,求学道路上的贫困,家庭亲属之间的琐事,对成功的渴望....这儿没有板起面孔的道德说教,没有虚饰的虚情假意...
评分1932年,奈保尔出生在南美洲的英殖民地:特里立达,印度人的聚居地,他是第三代印裔,对印度残存的记忆是年节时,父母洗手焚香的那一刻,和祖父母交谈时,一些印度语的碎片.他不是繁茂的根系上衍生出来的一个枝节,一朵花,完全不是,他受英式教育长大,在18岁考取奖学金离开这个小岛去...
评分从家书中,我们得以一探消息:奈保尔家庭亲情之浓,可见一斑。另外,奈氏的文学之路,我们也略知一二。从牛津留学生到初试啼声的文坛新秀,令人更明了蜚声国际的大作家的早期成长岁月。虽依依稀稀,但已足矣!
评分生活是如此的残酷而凶狠,常常是还没有从前一个浪头的摧残下爬起来,就被下一个浪头狠狠的继续拍倒。对某些人来说,活着,就是人生最大的折磨。希望,只是个虚无缥缈的东西,唯一可能来自于永不停歇的奋斗,奋斗,深刻的思考,继续奋斗,人类的竞争是如此的激烈,以至于,只有...
评分读这本36万字、诺贝尔获奖者的家书,跟最初的期待视野的吻合程度相比大抵是差强人意的。 -每一封家书奈保尔和其父、其长姐都会涉及到吃穿用度。因为家里一共有7个孩子,父母压力不言而喻。奈保尔获奖学金去牛津大学是靠他自己的勤奋努力,但能在英国生存下去顺利地毕业,却是整...
Between Father and Son pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024