发表于2024-12-23
All Souls 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 西班牙 长篇小说 牛津 Javier_Marías Javier-Marías
By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.
In All Souls , a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. Yet so much goes into simply "being" at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this sly campus novel and love story.
这是让马里亚斯真正开始赢得国际声誉的小说,也是我到目前为止读过他的作品中“有效事件”最少的一本。文体风格和叙述方式比前一部The Man of Feeling都有长足进步,好几个场景的细节描写都让我想起穆齐尔的句子。小说中缺乏生气的牛津小镇也是重要的角色,几个主要人物身上所笼罩的衰败气质似乎来自周围的环境,又与他们的过去息息相关。和之后的作品不同,马里亚斯在这本书中留出了很多模糊的空间,鬼魅般的暗影挥之不去,仿佛万灵皆亡,到结尾处,无名叙述者在短短两年多后却深感时空变换后的疲惫和虚空,所有的谜团倒不重要了。
评分Haunting details. Depressing Oxbridge.
评分Haunting details. Depressing Oxbridge.
评分Haunting details. Depressing Oxbridge.
评分Haunting details. Depressing Oxbridge.
All Souls 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书