An important achievement from a writer who has explored the unconscious in poetry and fiction for fifty years, The Walled Garden belongs to a developing tradition on the Pacific Coast of exploring landscape as inner and outer worlds. At the centre of the book is Bullock's eye for the image, his command of metaphor, and his intense, often elliptical method of transfiguring inanimate objects into powerful symbols of consciousness. Through a series of poems and short prose passages the book is fashioned into a mystical-gothic-romantic poetic ritual: behind the walled garden of consciousness, of love and myth, lies the mind's desire to transcend itself, and ordinary reality.
Michael Bullock was born in 1916 in London, England where he worked for many years as a freelance writer and translator. His prolific, life long writing career was not limited, it seems, by genre, and he was to produce essays, plays, works in translation, prose, and poetry throughout his career. As well as being a prolific writer and translator, Bullock was the founder, and for five years editor, of the British poetry magazine Expression, as well as editor-in-chief of Prism International. Considered a surrealist (he was a founding member of Melmoth Vancouver, originally titled The Vancouver Surrealist Newsletter) Bullock was unafraid to push the limits of creative writing, often blending poems with music and visual art. Bullock has, in fact, displayed his own artwork in exhibitions and galleries, as well as using it to augment his textual works. He was educated at the Hornsey College of Art and the Polytechnic School of Language, and was, in fact, chosen as chairman of the British Translators Association in 1963. Bullock came to Canada in 1968 as a Commonwealth Fellow, and in 1969 became a member of The University of British Columbias Creative Writing Department. He retired from the University in 1983 with the rank of Professor Emeritus.
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评分这是一部充满哲学思辨色彩的作品,它探讨了自由与秩序之间永恒的矛盾。作者并没有急于给出一个明确的答案,而是将读者置于一个充满灰色地带的环境中,逼迫我们去审视自己对“安全”和“自我实现”的理解。小说的叙事风格非常独特,夹杂着大量的内心独白和环境描绘,仿佛不是在阅读一个故事,而是在参与一场深刻的自我剖析。我特别欣赏作者对象征手法的运用,那些反复出现的主题和意象,每一次出现都有着新的含义,极大地丰富了文本的层次感。阅读过程中,我经常需要停下来,回溯前文,才能真正理解某些情节的深层含义。这可能不是那种能让你一口气读完的“爽文”,但它绝对是那种能在你心里生根发芽,时常冒出新芽的佳作。它挑战了我们对于既定规则的盲从,鼓励我们去质疑那些被视作理所当然的束缚。
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