V.S.奈保尔(V.S.Naipaul):
英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭,1950年进入牛津大学攻读英国文学,毕业后迁居伦敦。
50年代开始写作,著有《米格尔街》、《斯通与骑士伙伴》、《自由国度》、《河湾》、“印度三部曲”、《非洲的假面剧》等。2001年,荣获诺贝尔文学奖。
发表于2025-03-16
In a Free State 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
1.与其成为没有回乡的侨民,不如成为流浪汉。 前者在故乡受侵略时被迫离开,而在遭受种种屈辱之后重获自由的国土已不再是我的故乡——何时是归期,何处是故土,心何时何地都在漂泊,这些相对于原乡里稍微体面一点的人都俨然成了自由的牺牲品。 后者,面上看“无国无家”,实则...
评分读罢《孤独的人》,去阳光房冲咖啡休息眼睛,窗外夜色溶溶,远处高楼闪着荧蓝的霓虹,城市在进入睡眠前高调着喧闹,越过丛丛被黑暗浸溶色泽深紫的树冠,能听见马路上车来车往的呼啸。 适才的阅读仍给我快意的享受。V S 奈保尔,自从他以诺贝尔获奖作家的身份进入我的书单后,...
评分【读品】成刚/文 《自由国度》捧走了1971年的英国布克奖,后惨遭二十家英国出版社不留情面的退稿,固然跟《星期日泰晤士报》在文稿署名处隐去奈保尔的名讳代之以不见经传的假名有关,暴露出当今出版社编辑仰名家鼻息弃小卒不睬的陋习。奈保尔本人对这一尴尬局面的应对很有技巧...
评分看完《米格尔街》很佩服奈保尔,怎么写的这么活灵活现的,这些人啊栩栩如生。 所以又拿了 自由国度回来。图书馆里奈保尔的书很多,有一排。随手拿的,不算厚。 一页页翻,不知道前后有连接没?看完楔子一集两个短篇。还是觉得这是天才笔力,简单的就写出了那些底层人的...
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No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives.
In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people--Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys, and Linda, a supercilious “compound wife” [117]-- are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital [111]. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin’s Uganda. [111-12, 120, 130-1, 150, 178, 220-40] And the farther Naipaul’s protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims. Alongside this Conradian tour de force are four incisive portraits of men seeking liberation far from home. By turns funny and terrifying, sorrowful and unsparing, In A Free State is Naipaul at his best.
最后一篇如同嚼蜡。但前面几篇真的短小深刻。
评分有点失望。两个短篇还不错,主打的短长篇令人厌烦,通篇没话找话的大段景物描写,没看出起到什么必不可少的作用。其实整本书就是在讲cultural displacement,无论“从低向高”追求更好的生活,还是“从高到低”寻求自由,最终都事与愿违无所适从。
评分更喜欢前面的几个短篇,同名的短篇还没有读完
评分最后一篇如同嚼蜡。但前面几篇真的短小深刻。
评分We all come out of the same pot, but some people move ahead and some people get left behind. Some people get left behind so far they don't know and they stop caring.
In a Free State 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书