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发表于2024-11-25
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From the Nobel laureate–a spare, searing new novel about identity and idealism, and their ability to shape or destroy us.
Willie Chandran–whom we first met in Half a Life–is a man in his early forties who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him, as if he could truly know himself by becoming what others imagine him to be. His life has taken him from his native India to England, Africa in its last colonial moment, and Berlin, until finally it returns him to his homeland. Succumbing to the demanding encouragement of his sister–and his own listlessness–Willie joins an underground movement in India ostensibly devoted to unfettering the lower castes. But seven years of revolutionary campaigns and several years in jail convince him that the revolution “had nothing to do with the village people we said we were fighting for…[that] our ideas and words were more important than their lives and their ambitions for themselves.” And, as well, he feels himself further than ever “from his own history and…from the ideas of himself that might have come to him with that history.”
When Willie returns to England where, thirty years before, his psychological and physical wanderings began, he finds the fruit of another unexpected social revolution (more magic seeds), and comes to see himself as a man “serving an endless prison sentence”–a revelation that may finally release him into his true self.
Magic Seeds is a masterpiece, written with all the depth and resonance, the clarity of vision and precision of language, that are the hallmarks of this brilliant writer.
奈保尔(Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul),英籍印度裔作家。1932年8月17日出生于中美洲特立尼达和多巴哥。18岁赴牛津大学求学,获得文学学士学位后定居英国。曾任BBC“加勒比之声”栏目主持人3年。游走世界各地写作多年,批判发展中社会的精神和物质的双重匮乏,语多辛辣诙谐。主要作包括《灵异推拿师》(约翰·卢埃林·里斯纪念奖),《米格尔大街》(萨莫塞特·毛姆奖),《黑暗之地》,《印度:一个伤痕累累的文明》,《自由国度》(1971年布克奖),《河湾》,《半生》,《魔种》等。1990年获英国皇室封爵;1993年,成为英国大卫·柯恩文学奖首位获奖者,该奖旨在表彰“尚在人世的英国作家一生的成就”。2001年,因“作品中兼具犀利的叙述与正直的洞察,迫使我们正视那些被压抑的历史的存在”,被授予诺贝尔文学奖。
初识奈保尔。
评分初识奈保尔。
评分最后两章赞.it's wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
评分初识奈保尔。
评分初识奈保尔。
一颗魔种,代表了任何东西。 可以是一种理想;可以是一份救赎;可以是一杯美酒;可以…… 看它的发展方向了,当然,过程很重要。 奈保尔的书我就只看过这一本,不好做较全面的评价。 反正主人公威利给我的感受就是每个人都有自己的理想,但总是比现实所左右。而且绝大多数情况...
评分奈保尔72岁时最后一部作品,题目其实很令人困惑。这部作品全篇充满了苦涩。男主人公从来没有过正经的事业,始终在到处流浪,他本身的意见似乎并不重要,他更多是个见证者。威利出场时已经40多岁了,他早年在伦敦上学,遇见一个葡萄牙裔非洲人,两人结婚在非洲待了十八年,无所...
评分我这辈子在哪儿都找不到家,只是看起来像在家里。 一直以来,我过的都是别人的生活。 我从来没有在属于自己的房间里安睡过。 这几句,像箭一样击中了我,无法摆脱。奈保尔给人硬汉诺奖的形象,顿时完全消解。 这部奈保尔封笔之作,议论很多。 但很多人都忘记了,写这部书的作...
评分奈保尔72岁时最后一部作品,题目其实很令人困惑。这部作品全篇充满了苦涩。男主人公从来没有过正经的事业,始终在到处流浪,他本身的意见似乎并不重要,他更多是个见证者。威利出场时已经40多岁了,他早年在伦敦上学,遇见一个葡萄牙裔非洲人,两人结婚在非洲待了十八年,无所...
评分书中最让人难忘的是幻灭感,理想主义的幻灭感。 译者的后记说这是一部流浪汉小说,是从小说的叙事视角说的,故事从柏林展开,在伦敦结束,整个作品是从主人公威利的角度展开的,关于思想活动的叙事特别多,相比之下,故事不是那么紧张、好看,就是在这冷冷的叙事下,威利参加印...
Magic Seeds pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024