具体描述
“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security....
A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.
作者简介
John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929).
After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in The Long Valley (1938). Popular success and financial security came only with Tortilla Flat (1935), stories about Monterey’s paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The Grapes of Wrath won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.
Early in the 1940s, Steinbeck became a filmmaker with The Forgotten Village (1941) and a serious student of marine biology with Sea of Cortez (1941). He devoted his services to the war, writing Bombs Away (1942) and the controversial play-novelette The Moon is Down (1942). Cannery Row (1945), The Wayward Bus (1948), another experimental drama, Burning Bright (1950), and The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951) preceded publication of the monumental East of Eden (1952), an ambitious saga of the Salinas Valley and his own family’s history.
The last decades of his life were spent in New York City and Sag Harbor with his third wife, with whom he traveled widely. Later books include Sweet Thursday (1954), The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (1957), Once There Was a War (1958), The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962), America and Americans (1966), and the posthumously published Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters (1969), Viva Zapata! (1975), The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976), and Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1989).
Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968. Today, more than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures.
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读后感
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我非常欣赏作者在构建世界观上的宏大格局。这个故事似乎不仅仅是关于几个角色的命运，它更像是一部微缩的历史编年史，映照着更深层次的人类境遇。书中的地理空间不仅仅是背景，它本身就是角色的一部分，带着独特的历史烙印和文化气息，渗透到人物的性格与行为模式之中。作者的笔触有一种古典的史诗感，即使描写日常琐事，也仿佛带着一种宿命的重量。我尤其对书中关于“传承”与“断裂”的主题印象深刻。几代人之间的观念冲突，那些被刻意掩盖或遗忘的往事，如何以一种近乎幽灵般的方式影响着当下，被描绘得极其巧妙。语言方面，这本书采取了一种非常沉稳、克制的风格，极少有夸张的修辞，全凭情节的内在张力推动。这使得最终爆发的情感冲击力更加震撼，如同地震前漫长的沉寂。读完后，我感觉自己像是参与了一场漫长而庄重的仪式，对人与自然、人与历史的关系有了全新的体悟。
评分说实话，这本书对我来说，是一次挑战，但绝对是值得的挑战。它的叙事视角非常独特，时而拉得极远，俯瞰众生百态，时而又极近，深入到角色最私密的意识流之中。这种切换，初看时有些令人眩晕，仿佛置身于一个不断旋转的万花筒。书中描绘的那个特定年代的社会风貌，那种既保守又暗流涌动的氛围，被作者描绘得入木三分。我能感受到那种被时代洪流裹挟的无力感，无论是个人的抗争还是集体的沉默，都带有某种悲剧色彩。书中对人性的阴暗面，特别是嫉妒和贪婪的刻画，极为犀利，丝毫不留情面。有些情节的残酷性让人不忍卒读，但正是这份真实，让整个故事的基调显得厚重无比。这本书的结构是极其工整的，就像一座经过精密计算的建筑，每一层楼都承载着不同的主题重量，相互支撑，共同构建起一个宏伟的文学殿堂。它不是一本轻松的消遣读物，而是一次需要全心投入的审美探险。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直让人欲罢不能，作者对细节的捕捉能力令人叹为观止。故事的开端总是那么不疾不徐，像是在铺陈一幅宏大的画卷，每一个人物的登场都充满了宿命感。我尤其欣赏作者对环境描写的细腻，那种粗粝的质感，仿佛能透过纸张触摸到空气中的尘土与热浪。主人公的内心挣扎被刻画得入木三分，那种在传统与渴望之间徘徊的矛盾，真实到让人心痛。书中关于社群内部权力结构的探讨也十分深刻，那些潜规则和无形的枷锁，比任何明面上的冲突都更具压迫性。读到高潮部分时，情节的张力达到了顶峰，每一个转折都出乎意料却又在情理之中。作者高超的叙事技巧在于，他能让你在为角色的命运揪心时，又不自觉地思考更深层次的社会议题。通篇下来，那种挥之不去的压抑感与对自由的向往交织在一起，使得这本书的余韵久久不能散去，读完后需要时间才能真正抽离出来，回味无穷。
评分这本书最让我称道的是它对“选择的后果”这一主题的探讨深度。作者没有简单地将人物塑造成好人或坏人，而是将他们置于一个道德灰色地带，让他们做出艰难的、充满代价的抉择。书中充满了那些“如果不做A，就会发生B”的连锁反应，每一个决定都像投入平静湖面的一块石头，涟漪久久不散。情节的推进非常依赖于人物之间微妙的心理博弈和信息的不对称性，这使得阅读过程充满了紧张感。我喜欢作者那种冷静的观察者视角，他很少直接评判角色的对错，而是将证据和结果摆在读者面前，引导我们自行得出结论。书中的象征物使用得极其精妙，它们并非简单的装饰，而是承载着推动情节发展的关键线索。阅读时，我常常需要停下来，回顾前文，以确保我没有错过任何一个细微的暗示。这种需要主动参与构建意义的阅读体验，是当代文学中难得的享受，它将读者从被动的接受者提升到了合作者的地位。
评分这是一部结构精巧、语言极富韵律感的作品。初读之下，我被其华丽而又凝练的文字风格深深吸引。作者似乎对词语的选择有着近乎偏执的追求，每一个形容词和动词都恰如其分，构建出一种既古典又现代的阅读体验。故事并非线性展开，而是通过一系列碎片化的记忆和闪回，将一个家族的兴衰史徐徐铺陈开来。这种非传统的时间叙事手法，要求读者必须全神贯注，才能将散落的线索拼凑完整。我特别喜欢作者处理象征手法的成熟度，那些反复出现的主题，比如“记忆的重量”与“身份的漂泊”，贯穿始终，却从不显得说教或重复。更妙的是，即便是配角，也拥有饱满的立体感，他们的选择和局限性，共同构成了这个世界复杂的肌理。阅读过程更像是在解谜，每当我以为掌握了故事的走向时，作者总能用一个意料之外的对话或场景，将我彻底拉入迷雾之中。结尾的处理尤其高明，它没有给出明确的答案，而是留下了一个充满张力的开放式结局，留给读者无尽的想象空间去填充。
评分万恶的esl阅读..
评分where is my pearl?
评分A easy but impressive one, humanity rises and dies in the lightness and darkness of The Pearl. Filled with love, hatred, joy,sadness,and etc
评分goodreads上有些小学生的评论真是笑吐我了 读什么斯坦贝克啊 朋友 听说过小时代吗
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