V.S.奈保爾(V.S.Naipaul):
英國著名作傢。1932年生於特立尼達島上一個印度移民傢庭,1950年進入牛津大學攻讀英國文學,畢業後遷居倫敦。
50年代開始寫作,著有《米格爾街》、《斯通與騎士夥伴》、《自由國度》、《河灣》、“印度三部麯”、《非洲的假麵劇》等。2001年,榮獲諾貝爾文學奬。
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.
發表於2025-02-02
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康德說:所謂自由,不是隨心所欲,而是自我主宰。可誰又曾真正擁有過自己,能夠主宰自我呢? 自由,就是一片叢林,你我早已在追逐自由國度中迷失瞭方嚮。 v.s.奈保爾: 我曾經在鏡中端詳自己, 決定做個自由人, 然而現在, 自由使我認識到, 我有一張臉,一副軀體; 我必須在...
評分for 上海壹周 一個印度廚師跟隨他的主人去瞭美國華盛頓;一個西印度青年遠赴倫敦掙錢照顧弟弟;一對英國殖民者在新近獨立的非洲國傢旅行,目睹瞭部族殘殺和社會動蕩……在2001年諾貝爾文學奬得主奈保爾的虛構世界裏,每個人都遠離故土。這本獲得1971年布剋奬的《自由國度》...
評分In A Free State is much better than the other stories in this book. It is modern-style, cool, taut, rthymic and balanced. You'll never be bored by this story if you're reading its original English version. The emotion is controlled; the conversation is prov...
評分IN A FREE STATE。這是我剛剛看完的奈保爾的一本書的書名,1971年齣版,獲得瞭當年的布剋奬。其中的兩篇在2002年第1期的《世界文學》奈保爾專輯中刊登過。 這本書包括兩篇遊記的節選,兩個短篇,一個小長篇,兩個短篇因為在《世界文學》上看過,所以這次看瞭剩餘的,最後看的...
評分for 上海壹周 一個印度廚師跟隨他的主人去瞭美國華盛頓;一個西印度青年遠赴倫敦掙錢照顧弟弟;一對英國殖民者在新近獨立的非洲國傢旅行,目睹瞭部族殘殺和社會動蕩……在2001年諾貝爾文學奬得主奈保爾的虛構世界裏,每個人都遠離故土。這本獲得1971年布剋奬的《自由國度》...
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有點失望。兩個短篇還不錯,主打的短長篇令人厭煩,通篇沒話找話的大段景物描寫,沒看齣起到什麼必不可少的作用。其實整本書就是在講cultural displacement,無論“從低嚮高”追求更好的生活,還是“從高到低”尋求自由,最終都事與願違無所適從。
評分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.
評分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.
評分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.
評分最後一篇如同嚼蠟。但前麵幾篇真的短小深刻。
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