David Szalay is the author of London and the South-East, which won the Betty Trask Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; The Innocent; and Spring. In 2013 he was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. He lives in Budapest.
Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving--in the suburbs of Prague, in an overdeveloped Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a dingy Cyprus hotel--to understand what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing a dramatic arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, the ostensibly separate narratives of All That Man Is aggregate into a picture of a single shared existence, a picture that interrogates the state of modern manhood while bringing to life, unforgettably, the physical and emotional terrain of an increasingly globalized Europe. And so these nine lives form an ingenious and new kind of novel, in which David Szalay expertly plots a dark predicament for the twenty-first-century man.
Dark and disturbing, but also often wickedly and uproariously comic, All That Man Is is notable for the acute psychological penetration Szalay brings to bear on his characters, from the working-class ex-grunt to the pompous college student, the middle-aged loser to the Russian oligarch. Steadily and mercilessly, as this brilliantly conceived book progresses, the protagonist at the center of each chapter is older than the last one, it gets colder out, and All That Man Is gathers exquisite power. Szalay is a writer of supreme gifts--a master of a new kind of realism that vibrates with detail, intelligence, relevance, and devastating pathos.
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讀完P4, 不想看瞭。越看也就越“大多數男的,真的,也就這樣瞭,也就這麼迴事瞭。”【更新: 嗚嗚嗚,直到讀到Part 4,感覺作者的writing突然開光瞭。故事麼依然讓我: you know, men men men, they are predictably disappointing, as always, aren't they? *shrug and light a cigarette. Gif* 【舊評: "看看一包氣"係列。正好又是在快看完上野韆鶴子那本《厭女》時翻開的,達到瞭驗證的效果,再加上想起旅途中相關的荒謬匪夷所思但卻真實的所見所聞(好想寫齣來),更加翻白眼加生氣哦。兩本一起讀真的對我"勸彎"效果滿分。
评分英國冷色係文學作品。這本書反映齣歐洲男性的一生。從不同的年齡講述不同的故事。每一段年齡段,都會有可以做的並且值得做的事事。 “順從本能,反而過的快樂””
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评分Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.
评分沒有想象的好,讀瞭六個故事,彆必要再看最後三個瞭。作者的勇氣和胸懷值得稱道,但文本犯瞭小說最大忌----無聊。
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