With this stunning new novel, cast in the form of a postmodern nightmare, Ishiguro tells a powerful story in which he once again exploits a narrator's utter lack of self-knowledge to create a devastating deadpan irony. A celebrated concert pianist identified only as Mr Ryder arrives at an unnamed European (seemingly Germanic) city not only to give a concert but also, it seems, to address the townspeople and help them surmount a communal sense of crisis that stems from the city's inability to nurture a musical artist of outstanding creative talent. Strangely, the economic, social and psychic health of the community depends on its regaining its self-image in the wake of a dreadful past mistake, when the city fathers lionized a musician with the "wrong" artistic values. Ryder intuits this situation gradually, for he is curiously disoriented; he can't really remember what he's supposed to be doing there. In fact, through Ryder's confused perceptions, the reader is immediately plunged into a surrealistic landscape that has the eerie unpredictability, claustrophobic atmosphere and strange time sequences of a dream. Everyone in this town presents a false image to the world. Each person Ryder meets addresses him with fawning obsequiousness and asks him for a small favor which turns out to be an egregious intrusion into his time. Yet Ryder, infused with an inflated sense of mission, feels a need to console them: "People need me. I arrive in a place and find terrible problems, and people are so grateful I've come." Although he initially thinks he's a stranger in the city, it slowly becomes obvious that he's been here before. In fact, he has been the lover of a woman called Sophie whose little boy, Boris, in many ways replays the pivotal events of Ryder's own life. With dream logic, many of Ryder's childhood friends from England turn up in this inhospitable place, and it becomes obvious that most events are replicas of ones that have occurred before or that fulfill Ryder's fears about the future. As in Ishiguro's previous books (The Remains of the Day, etc.), almost every turn of the plot concerns a failure of communication and a stifling of emotional responses. Children are profoundly wounded by their self-absorbed and insensitive parents; lovers alienate each other across an emotional abyss. The culture-obsessed inhabitants of the city don't recognize true talent when it appears; they disapprove of creativity when it doesn't fit their expectations. Sustaining the nightmarish atmosphere of this tale?its tone alternately sinister and farcical?for more than 500 pages is a tricky business, especially since all the characters express themselves in long, dense monologues. Yet, so adroit is Ishiguro in maintaining suspense that one is as ensnared in the nightmare as is Ryder. The story seems to be a journey through life: its purpose never entirely clear, its events capricious and inexplicable, its destination undoubtedly "the vast, dark, empty space" of the soul's extinction. 75,000 first printing; BOMC and QPB selections.
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婚姻勸退指南與遠方的誘惑 雖然說ryder好像有遺忘癥,拖延癥和躁狂癥,但是這些事情全部都指嚮現實偏離預定計劃滑嚮不受控的未知方嚮導緻的壓力。全文中空間和時間的錯亂,一整章內容的敘述結束不過隻過去幾分鍾,穿過一扇門就能迴到來時駕車許久的旅館,使之具有夢境的體感。...
評分婚姻勸退指南與遠方的誘惑 雖然說ryder好像有遺忘癥,拖延癥和躁狂癥,但是這些事情全部都指嚮現實偏離預定計劃滑嚮不受控的未知方嚮導緻的壓力。全文中空間和時間的錯亂,一整章內容的敘述結束不過隻過去幾分鍾,穿過一扇門就能迴到來時駕車許久的旅館,使之具有夢境的體感。...
評分婚姻勸退指南與遠方的誘惑 雖然說ryder好像有遺忘癥,拖延癥和躁狂癥,但是這些事情全部都指嚮現實偏離預定計劃滑嚮不受控的未知方嚮導緻的壓力。全文中空間和時間的錯亂,一整章內容的敘述結束不過隻過去幾分鍾,穿過一扇門就能迴到來時駕車許久的旅館,使之具有夢境的體感。...
評分婚姻勸退指南與遠方的誘惑 雖然說ryder好像有遺忘癥,拖延癥和躁狂癥,但是這些事情全部都指嚮現實偏離預定計劃滑嚮不受控的未知方嚮導緻的壓力。全文中空間和時間的錯亂,一整章內容的敘述結束不過隻過去幾分鍾,穿過一扇門就能迴到來時駕車許久的旅館,使之具有夢境的體感。...
評分婚姻勸退指南與遠方的誘惑 雖然說ryder好像有遺忘癥,拖延癥和躁狂癥,但是這些事情全部都指嚮現實偏離預定計劃滑嚮不受控的未知方嚮導緻的壓力。全文中空間和時間的錯亂,一整章內容的敘述結束不過隻過去幾分鍾,穿過一扇門就能迴到來時駕車許久的旅館,使之具有夢境的體感。...
圖書標籤: 石黑一雄 英國文學 Kazuo_Ishiguro KazuoIshiguro 英文原版 笑來推薦 沉默之子 文學
This novel felt twice as long as it needed to be. Still not sure what to make of it
評分前1/3很好漸入夢境,後麵太過瑣碎,讀完有宿醉感
評分一開始就像一個夢境:時間概念模糊,常常被打岔,有種夢裏常有的焦慮感和荒誕感/Ryder既是那個渴望得到父母認可的Stephen,又是那個被嶽父寄予厚望的女婿,不知怎麼對待兒子的父親,兒時鄰居想要用他來炫耀,旅館經理想要用他來討妻子歡心,行李員想要讓他提醒大傢尊重自己的職業,記者想要用他來宣傳一幢大樓,Ryder答應瞭一大堆事情,最後不堪重負,簡直像《西遊記》裏唐僧最後答應馱他渡河的海龜問佛祖它的年紀一樣,注定會忘掉啊/那種一個夢連著一個夢的感覺寫得很好,雖然發生的事情都很瑣碎,但就是那種夢裏纔會有的情節/在石黑一雄的作品裏,算是對讀者不太友好的,全憑對他的信任纔讀到瞭最後
評分mr ryder大概同時有遺忘癥,拖延癥和躁狂癥等多種現代疾病。注意力不集中,並且有一點路癡。
評分一般
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