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发表于2024-11-22
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Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a witty, original and absorbing account of one man’s effort to come to terms with deafness, ageing and mortality, and the comedy and tragedy of human lives.
When the university merged his Department of English with Linguistics, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the routine of the academic year and has lost his appetite for research. His wife Winifred’s late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort, while the rejuvenation of her appearance makes him uneasily conscious of the age gap between them. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on his aged father who stubbornly refuses to leave the house he is patently unable to live in with safety.
But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss — a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment, leading Desmond into mistakes, misunderstandings and follies. It might be comic for others, but for the deaf person himself, it is no joke. It is his deafness which inadvertently involves Desmond with a young woman whose wayward behaviour threatens to destabilize his life completely.
David Lodge(1935– ), English novelist and critic, b. London, grad. University College, London (B.A., M.A.) and the Univ. of Birmingham (Ph.D.). Lodge taught at the Univ. of Birmingham (1960–87), during which time he wrote studies of Graham Greene (1966) and Evelyn Waugh (1971). His works of criticism, which deal mainly with modern literary theory, include The Language of Fiction (1966), The Modes of Modern Writing (1977), Working with Structuralism (1981), The Art of Fiction (1992), and Consciousness and the Novel (2002). Since 1987 he has been a full-time writer. Lodge has used his deep intimacy with the academic world in many of his novels, which reveal a talent for deft characterization, wry humor, and incisive commentary. At its best, Lodge's fiction combines satire with humane sympathy for his characters. His novels include The Picturegoers (1960), Changing Places (1979), Small World (1985), Nice Work (1988), Paradise News (1991), Therapy (1995), and Thinks... (2001).
结尾稍有点仓促。不过整体还是DL一贯谐谑的风格。tragicomic。
评分断断续续读了几个月才读完,因为有一点点沉闷,看到最后几十页甚至知道看到最后才欲罢不能,还记得念大学时看得Lodge的两本书都是荒诞乐中不经意夹杂着丝丝伤感,而这本是一直很伤感,到结尾迸发!
评分appallingly frank
评分幽默幽默多了一些人生无法控制的悲伤。
评分幽默幽默多了一些人生无法控制的悲伤。
这是我第一次读到这种日记形式的书,至少是第一本我有着深刻印象且整本读完的书籍。 一个失聪的人,他的生活,他的那种独特的生活视角。 因为他的失聪,不可否认,他的生活中出现了很多的矛盾,与妻子之间偶尔的不协调与争吵,在家外遇到的各种囧事,以及在一些特殊聚会或者说...
评分 评分有趣的是,读这本书的时候我也在读《失明症漫记》,《失明症漫记》开场的神秘荒诞占了上峰,我更愿意看【失明】,等到“杀戮”开始后,就翻不动了……转投到【失聪】后显得轻松了很多,作者也对失明和失聪做了比照,也承认听不见比看不见好得多,在残疾里是最轻微的,但是不管...
评分 评分Deaf Sentence pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024