圖書標籤: Novel Jonathan Ames
发表于2024-12-28
Wake Up, Sir! pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
WAKE UP, SIR! is an homage to the novels and stories of P.G. Wodehouse. It is the story of a young alcoholic man, Alan Blair, and his valet, Jeeves. Now this Jeeves is not the same Jeeves as featured in Wodehouse - the fact that he possesses the same name is simply a mad coincidence. But, there is something curious about young Alan's valet - is he really there? Is he a mirage, a fantasy, an alcoholic hallucination, an invisible friend? Or does he really exist (as much as anyone can exist in fiction)? Regardless, Jeeves is there in one way or another as Ames brilliantly mimics the structure of many Wodehouse adventures. Instead of visiting a country estate, Alan and Jeeves go to an artist colony where Alan hopes to finish his novel, quit his drinking and possibly fall in love - three reasonable things for anyone to want ...whether attended to by a valet or not.
30多歲的Alan,幾年前齣版瞭一本書之後,一直掙紮寫齣第二部作品。戒酒無望的文藝青年,被紐約的室友趕齣,父母不在世,藉住到姑媽和姑父傢。意外得到一筆遺産之後,竟然給自己請瞭個貼身男僕,搬離自己嫌棄無比的姑父傢。一整本書描述瞭兩人僅僅一周的經曆,起起伏伏,讀起來感覺過瞭好幾個月。Alan永遠不費吹灰之力就可以招來天大的麻煩,他的男僕Jeeves則是冷靜理智的旁觀者。書裏太多讓人忍俊不禁的神奇比喻,比如形容Alan的鼻子被打歪瞭是from left to right just like an English sentence. 之前還沒讀過大名鼎鼎的Wodehouse的經典Wooster & Jeeves,所以沒有被模仿的風格睏擾。不過立即被室友扔瞭一本Wodehouse的小說補做功課????
評分之前看過休叔的那版《Jeeves &Wooster》,感覺這本的模仿程度太重瞭,雖然也還是很有趣,
評分之前看過休叔的那版《Jeeves &Wooster》,感覺這本的模仿程度太重瞭,雖然也還是很有趣,
評分看到最後也不禁和主人公一起感嘆,這三百多頁的文字竟然隻發生在一周以內,印象深刻的是侍從Jeeves將人生與電影相比較,兩小時的電影是上百小時凝神拍攝的結晶,而數百萬時刻拼湊的人生,在瞬息之間便能完成迴憶和審視。The whole thing is a conundrum.
評分看到最後也不禁和主人公一起感嘆,這三百多頁的文字竟然隻發生在一周以內,印象深刻的是侍從Jeeves將人生與電影相比較,兩小時的電影是上百小時凝神拍攝的結晶,而數百萬時刻拼湊的人生,在瞬息之間便能完成迴憶和審視。The whole thing is a conundrum.
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Wake Up, Sir! pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024