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发表于2024-11-06
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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。
文笔 &《Half A Life》 续本更有深度更趋于结论的不只关于文化更关乎于心灵的探索。
评分文笔 &《Half A Life》 续本更有深度更趋于结论的不只关于文化更关乎于心灵的探索。
评分初识奈保尔。
评分初识奈保尔。
评分文笔 &《Half A Life》 续本更有深度更趋于结论的不只关于文化更关乎于心灵的探索。
在生命的尽头,人会如何回顾他的一生?他这一生的所有的成就、激情、感悟,所信奉的思想,以及所遵守的价值观在这尽头之处究竟意味着什么?是能够让你安心的面对最终黑暗时刻的到来?还是仅仅只是幻象的气泡破裂之后留下的虚无,伴你融进一个更大的无边的虚无之中?这似乎是奈...
评分《魔种》看完了,18.8万字,12章节,第一和最后章节可算楔子及尾声,前半部分讲第三人称主人公“威利”回到故乡印度丛林中参加游击队的经历,后半部分讲威利回到伦敦,开始反省及思考如何度过下半生。其中穿插回忆了过去的时光,在印度的童年,在伦敦的短暂的青年求学时光,在...
评分只看到三分之一,但是我已经被里面的世界所蛊惑了:这是怎样的世界?为了心中的理想,甘愿抛弃一切。 对于思想的力量,我一直不怀疑。也因为如此,我无法让自己踏入某一种思想的领域--那里过于深沉,我怕自己承受不了。我愿意远远地看着它们。 我不知道最后结局是如何的,但...
评分一颗魔种,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...
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