William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at Kings School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writers Notebook.
In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965
Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham’s masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him.
十岁出头,你看了《约翰克里斯多夫》,辗转反侧,浮想联翩。为英雄的浪漫主义精神而深受感动,你幼小的心灵预设了未来的人生必然荆棘丛生,而人的伟大精神必然冲破困难,破云而上,即便失败也充满悲剧意味。你觉得理想的人生应该这样度过。 你收听贝多芬的英雄交响曲,以及柴可...
评分这是本庞杂的书,看得甚是痛苦,看完了很久了,现在还是没有摆脱这种痛苦。它不停地提问,每个问题都值得想很久。我没有办法在一篇读感中穷尽它所带给我的思考,我也没有办法穷尽这本书所撩起的问题,可有的时候,它让我觉得有些开朗,让我觉得生活不再有太多的压力。请容我...
评分15岁的时候,我读到了这本书。 其中这一段,直到今天我也不敢重看。 “你具有某种手工上的灵巧,经过刻苦努力和坚持不懈,没有理由成不了一个认真的,还算能干的画家。你能够找到数以百计比你画得差的人,也可以找到数以百计画得同你不相上下的人。在你让我看的所有画作中我看...
评分在生活面前,我们每个人都可以找到理由做个弱者。 最近听了太多“社会迫害女性”的言论,有些反感。因为在我看来,迫害也分绝对迫害和相对迫害,暴力相向,长期的幽禁,肉体的凌辱,这些都算绝对伤害,但是什么所谓的媒体舆论,七姑八姨的闲话也算迫害,那有点弱者心态太过了...
评分故事还可以继续
评分痛苦的时候更要读毛姆,但读毛姆是脱离不了我本性的肤浅的
评分主要是孤独吧,因此可以理解 Philip 与 Mildred 之间的情感纠葛。以前读译本时还奇怪P为什么选择了结婚,现在在读了一串毛姆的小说后我觉得毛姆还是有那么几年向往婚姻、渴望被爱、远离孤独。所以他把结局收成了结婚,也算他了结了他的念想吧。另外毛姆后来弃医从文,因此P从医后的故事他也不能写、不好写了,点到为止即可。P或毛姆真的是很孤独,全书的高频单词就是 Solitary.
评分所谓枷锁不过是自己、周遭及社会所赋予的及预期会被赋予各类评价,或正面,或负面,挣脱这些枷锁重回自由状态,其实是自我和解的过程。
评分所谓枷锁不过是自己、周遭及社会所赋予的及预期会被赋予各类评价,或正面,或负面,挣脱这些枷锁重回自由状态,其实是自我和解的过程。
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