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发表于2024-11-15
The Leopard pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
The Leopard is set in Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification is coming violently into being, but it transcends the historical-novel classification. E.M. Forster called it, instead, "a novel which happens to take place in history." Lampedusa's Sicily is a land where each social gesture is freighted with nuance, threat, and nostalgia, and his skeptical protagonist, Don Fabrizio, is uniquely placed to witness all and alter absolutely nothing. Like his creator, the prince is an aristocrat and an astronomer, a man "watching the ruin of his own class and his own inheritance without ever making, still less wanting to make, any move toward saving it." Far better to take refuge in the night skies.
What renders The Leopard so beautiful, and so despairing, is Lampedusa's grasp of human frailty and his vision of Sicily's arid terrain--"comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung waves into frenzy." Though the author had long had the book in mind, he didn't begin writing it until he was in his late 50s. He died at 60, soon after it was rejected as unpublishable.
Archibald Colquhoun's lyrical translation also contains 70 more precious pages of Lampedusa--a memoir, a short story, and the first chapter of a novel. In "Places of My Infancy" the author warns that "the reader (who won't exist) must expect to be led meandering through a lost Earthly Paradise. If it bores him. I don't mind." Luckily, the reader does exist; even more luckily, boredom is not an option.
14年1月就標記想讀瞭...18年1月終於開始讀瞭... 對舊製度的懷念,對新貴階級貪婪和精明的鞭撻,從這個角度看相當反動瞭,好在看得開,衣食足而知榮辱,經濟基礎決定上層建築,舊貴族也好新興資本傢也好,不過是物質富足這個群體兩個不同階段罷瞭。號稱是西西裏最好的小說,為瞭旅遊去看的,結果也就是無功無過吧。
評分14年1月就標記想讀瞭...18年1月終於開始讀瞭... 對舊製度的懷念,對新貴階級貪婪和精明的鞭撻,從這個角度看相當反動瞭,好在看得開,衣食足而知榮辱,經濟基礎決定上層建築,舊貴族也好新興資本傢也好,不過是物質富足這個群體兩個不同階段罷瞭。號稱是西西裏最好的小說,為瞭旅遊去看的,結果也就是無功無過吧。
評分柯剋紅翻譯的。
評分14年1月就標記想讀瞭...18年1月終於開始讀瞭... 對舊製度的懷念,對新貴階級貪婪和精明的鞭撻,從這個角度看相當反動瞭,好在看得開,衣食足而知榮辱,經濟基礎決定上層建築,舊貴族也好新興資本傢也好,不過是物質富足這個群體兩個不同階段罷瞭。號稱是西西裏最好的小說,為瞭旅遊去看的,結果也就是無功無過吧。
評分柯剋紅翻譯的。
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The Leopard pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024