圖書標籤: 長篇小說 愛爾蘭 Colm-Tóibín
发表于2024-11-22
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The sea is slowly eating into the land and the hill with the old watchtower has completely disappeared. The nearest house has crumbled and fallen into the sea. It is Ireland in the late twentieth century. Eamon Redmond is a judge in the Irish High Court. Obsessed all his life by the letter and spirit of the law, he is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Toibin reconstructs the history of Eamon's relationships - with his father, his first "girl, " his wife, and the children who barely know him. He gives us a family as minutely realized as any of John McGahern's, and he writes about Eamon's affection for the landscape of his childhood on the east coast of Ireland with such skill that the land itself becomes a character. The result is a novel that ensnares us with its emotional intensity and dazzles with its crystalline prose. In The Heather Blazing, Colm Toibin displays once again the gifts that illuminated The South, a book described by Don DeLillo as "a grand achievement, " and by John Banville as "a daring imaginative feat...a splendid first novel."
Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland and lives in Dublin. He is one of Ireland's best known journalists. He is the author of The South, winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Prize. In 1995, he was awarded the Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Prize. He is also the author of The Heather Blazing and The Story of the Night.
【藏書閣打卡】濃濃的歸鄉情結 和這個除夕前正在歸傢的氛圍絕妙地吻閤!然而死亡卻是這部小說的永恒主題。幼年喪母,青年喪父,老來喪妻;曾經慈祥的祖父,喜歡閱讀的叔叔,也一一離他而去。小說開頭是和妻子兩個人每年夏天都會迴到blackWater這個他們熟悉的小鎮,在夏日的平靜裏迴憶起的卻是和父親以及祖父一傢溫暖的聖誕聚會;而到瞭小說結尾,卻是他孑然一身獨自迴到那個充滿滿滿記憶的老房子悼念亡妻。一部開始溫馨後麵痛苦結尾又給人希望的中篇,我好喜歡,在這個除夕前的鼕夜裏! I also dreamed which charmed me most That you loved me still the same That you loved me,loved me,still the same
評分托賓的文字讓人很有安全感,跟著他走就是,從語言到情節都不為難你,偶爾觸碰一下你心靈的痛處,貓一樣。
評分重讀。主人公信仰和親情失落的過程如同Enniscorthy的海水年復一年侵蝕陸地一般,悄悄啃噬慢慢推進,甚至給人某種世界會亙古不變的錯覺,其實一切早已於不經意間發生瞭質變。但是水也不盡然隻有毀滅性的力量,它也是事物運動的載體,也能帶來重生的機會;所以小說最後一章中Eamon用一盆水給小孫子Michael作為玩具,化解瞭他對自己的生疏感和懼怕感,並和女兒、孫子在海邊遊泳戲水,與當年父親(名字也叫Michael)教自己遊泳的情景遙相呼應,暗含瞭一種不計前嫌重建親情的可能。從更宏大的視角來看,Eamon作為愛爾蘭共和國高級法官,他宗教信仰的變化和對愛爾蘭民族主義的矛盾態度也是對上世紀六十年代後愛爾蘭社會變化的一種審視和反思。
評分重讀。主人公信仰和親情失落的過程如同Enniscorthy的海水年復一年侵蝕陸地一般,悄悄啃噬慢慢推進,甚至給人某種世界會亙古不變的錯覺,其實一切早已於不經意間發生瞭質變。但是水也不盡然隻有毀滅性的力量,它也是事物運動的載體,也能帶來重生的機會;所以小說最後一章中Eamon用一盆水給小孫子Michael作為玩具,化解瞭他對自己的生疏感和懼怕感,並和女兒、孫子在海邊遊泳戲水,與當年父親(名字也叫Michael)教自己遊泳的情景遙相呼應,暗含瞭一種不計前嫌重建親情的可能。從更宏大的視角來看,Eamon作為愛爾蘭共和國高級法官,他宗教信仰的變化和對愛爾蘭民族主義的矛盾態度也是對上世紀六十年代後愛爾蘭社會變化的一種審視和反思。
評分重讀。主人公信仰和親情失落的過程如同Enniscorthy的海水年復一年侵蝕陸地一般,悄悄啃噬慢慢推進,甚至給人某種世界會亙古不變的錯覺,其實一切早已於不經意間發生瞭質變。但是水也不盡然隻有毀滅性的力量,它也是事物運動的載體,也能帶來重生的機會;所以小說最後一章中Eamon用一盆水給小孫子Michael作為玩具,化解瞭他對自己的生疏感和懼怕感,並和女兒、孫子在海邊遊泳戲水,與當年父親(名字也叫Michael)教自己遊泳的情景遙相呼應,暗含瞭一種不計前嫌重建親情的可能。從更宏大的視角來看,Eamon作為愛爾蘭共和國高級法官,他宗教信仰的變化和對愛爾蘭民族主義的矛盾態度也是對上世紀六十年代後愛爾蘭社會變化的一種審視和反思。
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The Heather Blazing pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024