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发表于2025-06-02
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Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have money, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal boredom, and becomes enamoured of a social parasite and professional luncheon-goer.
這部帶有較多自傳色彩的小說追溯瞭tony和brenda的婚姻在brenda與john beaver通奸後的破裂過程。Brenda的婚外情受到她在倫敦的世故朋友的鼓勵。小說的最後,絕望的tony為擺脫煩惱到非洲的叢林中旅行,被一個酷愛迪更斯的老人捕獲,從此留在密林中為其誦讀迪更斯的小說。
語言洗練對話尤其輕車熟路,筆調好英式,能將悲劇沉重的東西用一種無感性、事不關己的調調錶達齣來,將主人公的呆傻、人性的卑鄙、idle rich的無聊生活以及終極的悲劇包藏在一部“輕鬆”的諷刺劇中。有一兩處讓我發笑的地方,但是讀起來有股濃重的虛無主義味道,不喜歡。也許,虛無主義和狂熱的宗教信仰真的隻是一綫之遙。Evelyn Waugh對人性的看法還真是苦澀。
評分語言洗練對話尤其輕車熟路,筆調好英式,能將悲劇沉重的東西用一種無感性、事不關己的調調錶達齣來,將主人公的呆傻、人性的卑鄙、idle rich的無聊生活以及終極的悲劇包藏在一部“輕鬆”的諷刺劇中。有一兩處讓我發笑的地方,但是讀起來有股濃重的虛無主義味道,不喜歡。也許,虛無主義和狂熱的宗教信仰真的隻是一綫之遙。Evelyn Waugh對人性的看法還真是苦澀。
評分another title for a proposed serialization in an american magazine (which didn't come into being in the end) is "a flat in london". while this title might not be as poetic as the original one, but it did point out the major element in this novel, one of the turning point for this story is brenda taking up a flat in london away form her big old estate, the hetton abbey, as well as a young man named john beaver. evelyn waugh told this story of a broken marriage while satirizing the time and society he lived in. author himself offered two endings to the story, one being a sad and reasonable one and another too-optimistic one. i personally prefer the first one for it fits the whole story and brenda doesn't deserve to be back with poor tony again. an interesting point i discovered during the reading: the title is from t.s eliot's the waste land, and t.s eliot used to gather and write together with aldous huxley. and the setting of this novel constantly remind of huxley's novel "crome yellow". all great writers are somehow connected, it seems.
評分作者在幾條敘事的綫切換的地方十分有意思,尤其是報道兒子死訊的時間把握,非常好的控製瞭張力,死訊在夫妻雙方百無聊賴的生活中不斷被減緩,一方麵暴露妻子對婚姻的失望,另一方麵又展現齣丈夫對婚姻的無力。中間部分有點亂,感覺倒是像對康拉德的緻敬,感覺作者寫作陷入瞭無目的和混亂。可喜的是最後跳瞭齣來,或者這就是pastiche和self-pastiche之間的遊戲吧。Tony最終不是走不齣荒蠻之地,而是十分諷刺地離不開他的上層文明。轉喻死亡和象徵閹割,或許就是沃對英國上層社會文化既崇尚又無奈的最後解決方案吧。語言和風格非常不錯。
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評分因为我没有读过这本书,不过正巧T.S.Eliot是我最喜欢的诗人之一。他的书不必读翻译的也不必买了。因为网上到处都可以找到。这一把尘土简直是世界上最美妙的尘土: "And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your ...
評分如果不看作者名Evelyn Waugh,简直难以想象《一把尘土》(我更喜欢《一抔土》这个译名)与《旧地重游》出自同一位作者。《旧地重游》通篇充满淡淡的哀伤,是对正在消逝的贵族生活的一曲挽歌,也是对爱情、友情和信仰的理想颂歌。而《一把尘土》却是对上层阶级无聊生活以及无所...
評分It's like when your dreamworld is granted to you, yet with a nightmarish tint. What would you do if you were Tony? Well, you know you cannot ever fight back, it's just up to you whether you suffer like a dumb hero or suffer a lot more and suffer interminabl...
評分因为我没有读过这本书,不过正巧T.S.Eliot是我最喜欢的诗人之一。他的书不必读翻译的也不必买了。因为网上到处都可以找到。这一把尘土简直是世界上最美妙的尘土: "And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your ...
A Handful of Dust pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025