In Seven Men the brilliant English caricaturist and critic Max Beerbohm turns his comic searchlight upon the fantastic fin-de-siècle world of the 1890s—the age of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and the young Yeats, as well of Beerbohm's own first success. In a series of luminous sketches, Beerbohm captures the likes of Enoch Soames, only begetter of the neglected poetic masterwork Fungoids; Maltby and Braxton, two fashionable novelists caught in a bitter rivalry; and "Savonarola" Brown, author of a truly incredible tragedy encompassing the entire Italian Renaissance. One of the masterpieces of modern humorous writing, Seven Men is also a shrewdly perceptive, heartfelt homage to the wonderfully eccentric character of a bygone age.
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872-1956) was born in London and studied at Oxford. He published his first collection of essays, entitled The Works of Max Beerbohm, in 1896 and soon established a reputation as a brilliant caricaturist and critic. He was married to the American actress Florence Kahn and lived in Rapallo, Italy, for most of his life.
John Updike (1932–2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death. His major work was the set of four novels chronicling the life of Harry “Rabbit: Angstrom, he two of which, Rabbit is Richand Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
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阅读体验是一种非常主观的感受,而这本书带给我的震撼,更像是一场突如其来的暴雨,洗刷了过去许多平庸的阅读记忆。它的语言风格极其鲜明,那种略带疏离感却又无比精准的文字运用,仿佛拥有某种魔力,能瞬间将读者带入角色的核心困境之中。我注意到作者在构建场景时,似乎非常钟情于运用对比强烈的意象,比如光影的交错、宁静与喧嚣的并置,这些细节的堆叠,极大地增强了故事的氛围感和深度。情节的展开并不急躁,它允许你在适当的时候停下来,去体会那种弥漫在空气中的不安或期待。那些看似不经意的对话,细细品味后,会发现它们是对未来事件的精准预示,这种结构上的精妙布局,体现了作者对整体架构的强大掌控力。对我而言,这本书的价值不仅在于其引人入胜的故事线,更在于它提供了一种全新的观察世界和理解人性的视角,读完后感觉自己的思维也得到了某种程度的拓展和雕琢。
评分这本小说给予我的,远超乎一个单纯的故事。它更像是一部关于“失去与重塑”的哲学探讨,只不过披着引人入胜的小说外衣。我特别欣赏作者在处理时间流逝和记忆碎片时的手法,那些闪回和回忆片段并非是简单的情节补充,而是对当前人物状态的深层注解,它们如同散落在地毯上的宝石,需要读者耐心地将它们重新串联起来,才能看到全貌。这种非线性的叙事组织,极大地考验了读者的专注力,但也带来了巨大的回报——当所有碎片最终拼合时,那种豁然开朗的震撼感是难以言喻的。它成功地避开了许多同类题材容易陷入的窠臼,没有陷入过度煽情的泥潭,而是用一种克制而有力的笔触,探讨了创伤如何塑造身份,以及个体如何在巨大的不确定性中重建意义。这本书的余味悠长,它在你合上书本之后,仍会时不时地跳出来,提醒你审视自己生命中的那些关键抉择和未竟之路。
评分说实话,这本书的开篇并不是那种让人一眼就觉得“爆炸性”的开场,它更像是一位技艺精湛的制茶师,慢火细熬,层层递进,将最醇厚的味道留在了后面。但一旦进入状态,那种沉浸感是排山倒海而来的。作者的笔触极具画面感,许多场景的描绘,无需任何辅助想象,便能在脑海中构成一幅高清的定格画面,色彩饱满,细节丰富。特别值得称赞的是,在处理紧张的冲突场面时,作者没有过度依赖夸张的动作描写,而是通过对角色内心极度紧绷的生理反应和细微动作的捕捉,将那种令人窒息的压迫感渲染到了极致。这种“以静制动”的叙事技巧,显得尤为高明,让读者全程保持着一种高度警觉的状态。它成功地在快节奏和慢思考之间找到了完美的平衡点,让阅读的每一次翻页都充满了仪式感和期待,绝对是一部值得反复品味的佳作。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直让人欲罢不能,从翻开第一页开始,我就被深深地拽入了一个充满未知与张力的世界。作者对于环境和人物心理的细腻描摹,构建了一个既真实又带着一丝神秘色彩的背景,让人忍不住想要一探究竟。故事的推进不是那种平铺直叙的流水账,而是充满了巧妙的伏笔和意想不到的转折,每一次以为自己掌握了故事走向时,总会有新的信息抛出来,将整个局势推向一个新的高潮。我尤其欣赏作者在处理复杂人际关系时的功力,角色之间的互动充满了张力,每一个眼神、每一次对话背后似乎都隐藏着更深层次的动机和秘密,这使得阅读过程变成了一种主动的解谜体验,让人连吃饭睡觉的时候都在琢磨接下来的情节会如何发展。这种高密度的信息量和情感投入,使得这本书不仅仅是一部消遣之作,更像是一场智力与情感的双重冒险,读完之后仍能在脑海中留下深刻的回响,让人久久不能平息。
评分我不得不承认,在开始阅读之前,我对这种题材抱持着一丝谨慎的观望态度,生怕落入俗套。然而,这本书迅速地打破了我的所有预设。它的叙事结构非常大胆,采用了多线并进的方式,但处理得极其干净利落,各条线索之间的穿插衔接自然得让人赞叹,丝毫没有让人感到混乱或脱节。真正让我感到惊喜的是作者对“灰色地带”的刻画。故事中的人物鲜有绝对的好人或坏人,他们都是被环境、选择和不可抗拒的命运所塑造的复杂个体,他们的挣扎和困惑,极大地增强了作品的现实穿透力。每一次阅读,我都能感受到那种强烈的代入感,仿佛我就是那个做出艰难抉择的主人公,必须在道德的边缘小心翼翼地行走。这种对人性的深刻洞察和毫不留情的揭示,让这部作品的厚重感油然而生,它不提供简单的答案,而是提出深刻的问题,迫使读者去深思和反省,这才是真正优秀的文学作品所应有的力量。
评分brilliant, brilliant, and brilliant. you should read the article from the atlantic after finishing enoch soames,link goes here http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97nov/teller.htm
评分Failure, if it be a plain, unvarnished, complete failure, and even though it be a squalid failure, has always a certain dignity.
评分brilliant, brilliant, and brilliant. you should read the article from the atlantic after finishing enoch soames,link goes here http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97nov/teller.htm
评分brilliant, brilliant, and brilliant. you should read the article from the atlantic after finishing enoch soames,link goes here http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97nov/teller.htm
评分brilliant, brilliant, and brilliant. you should read the article from the atlantic after finishing enoch soames,link goes here http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97nov/teller.htm
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