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The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel."
Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement."
"If the house caught on fire, the Victorian novel I would rescue from the flames would be The Way of All Flesh," wrote William Maxwell in The New Yorker. "It is read, I believe, mostly by the young, bent on making out a case against their elders, but Butler was fifty when he stopped working on it, and no reader much under that age is likely to appreciate the full beauty of its horrors. . . . Every contemporary novelist with a developed sense of irony is probably in some measure, directly or indirectly, indebted to Butler, who had the misfortune to be a twentieth-century man born in the year 1835."
萧伯纳曾赞誉巴特勒为“十九世纪后半期英国最伟大的作家”,这评价是过高了些。 巴特勒生前默默无闻,直到《众生之路》出版依然如此。借着萧伯纳的评价,他的《众生之路》多少受到了些关注。这多少和他在书中所批评的现象相类似。如果萧伯纳本就是一个市井平民,他的赞誉还会...
评分读这本书时,我触目惊心。那古板的牧师,那种教育方式,时时让我想起自己。一样是挣扎在考试的边缘,一样挣扎在对父母的话是否毕恭毕敬不打折扣执行的左右摇摆之中。 众生之路,说到底,不过是一个人走的路。只是这路的走法,不由自己觉得罢了。
评分读这本书时,我触目惊心。那古板的牧师,那种教育方式,时时让我想起自己。一样是挣扎在考试的边缘,一样挣扎在对父母的话是否毕恭毕敬不打折扣执行的左右摇摆之中。 众生之路,说到底,不过是一个人走的路。只是这路的走法,不由自己觉得罢了。
评分《众生之路》,一部半自传体小说,作者塞缪尔.巴特勒写了十余年,死后一年才得到出版,颇受冷遇。 巴特勒,这个十九世纪的英国作家,我对他不太了解,看过译本序言后就更糊涂了,这个人好象什么都干,没本行可言,往好了说是多才多艺,刻薄点就是不务正业。他一生的经历,可真...
评分作者这部半自传体小说,写的是自己的成长,那是“自己的路”,折射时代,或许就是想要表达的“众生之路”。 让人想到自己的经历。 最近总是在焦虑和释然中徘徊。焦虑了然后释然,看开了却又难过。 等地铁的时候很少人因为人多就去等下一班。因为就算很挤也会有一些空隙,去等下...
The Way of All Flesh (Modern Library Classics) pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024