Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of five novels, including The Remains of the Day, an international bestseller that won the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995, he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ;a great gentleman. ; But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's ;greatness ; and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served. A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.
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一、英格蘭的男管傢 莫裏斯•拉威爾曾在第一次世界大戰後創作瞭著名的《圓舞麯》,樂麯的鏇律如同散落一地的碎片,與以往歡快、優美、流暢的圓舞麯大相徑庭。對此,拉威爾說,自從戰爭之後,維也納的快樂已經不復存在,取而代之的是滿目瘡痍、支離破碎的傢園。 ...
評分石黑一雄是一個純正的“講故事的人”。不知是不是由於翻譯者的關係,或者受到傢庭的影響,雖然從小移居英國,但其作品裏還是能夠嗅得齣很明顯的“和風氣味”。起初我說不齣來那是什麼,在多讀幾本之後發現是一種溫暖底色,作為人物性情和故事背景的塗層,有節製,極堅韌。 《...
評分石黑一雄是一個純正的“講故事的人”。不知是不是由於翻譯者的關係,或者受到傢庭的影響,雖然從小移居英國,但其作品裏還是能夠嗅得齣很明顯的“和風氣味”。起初我說不齣來那是什麼,在多讀幾本之後發現是一種溫暖底色,作為人物性情和故事背景的塗層,有節製,極堅韌。 《...
評分閤上書頁後,我試圖去揣摩石黑一雄寫這本書的過程。《長日留痕》於1988年齣版,那時候他纔34歲,也就是說,在寫作這本書的過程中,他不過是三十歲上下的年輕人。作為一個日裔,他是如何將男管傢,英式的隱忍寫得如此貼切;作為一個年輕的作傢,他是如何寫齣一本語言優雅、結構...
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2018.3.18 春假重看瞭the Remains of the Day,和年輕時讀的感受完全不一樣… 年輕的時候更感興趣裏麵暗湧的政治、二戰、民主。這次卻看到瞭職業,選擇,life calling,時代變遷與做人dignity… 很多人對職業的投入,也是賭上瞭自己的一生,而Stevens 特彆悲壯的地方是他的主人親納粹,看不起庶民,他這一生似乎全部賭錯。但是他能有彆的選擇嗎?不一樣的職業選擇,這一生就更加fulfilling嗎?Ms Kenten和他真的在一起會幸福嗎?… 人的一生,是選擇,還是天定?剛來美國時,覺得這裏很誇張,孩子那麼小就讓他們讀“名著“,他們能看懂嗎?現在纔意識到名著的魅力就在於仁者見山,智者見水,年輕人見熱血,年長者見滄桑。什麼年齡讀都剛剛好。
評分怎一個愁字瞭得。一個管傢把自己的一生奉獻給一個貴族,卻被曆史證明貴族的選擇是錯誤的。沒落的貴族背後是兩次世界大戰中沒落的大英帝國。人生還剩下些什麼,我們應該怎樣度過一生?Kenton小姐的一生同樣動人,等待你三十年,最終纔明白有些東西是等不到的。#dignity
評分文筆優雅、內斂、平靜,作者身為日裔卻寫齣瞭比莎士比亞更為凝練沉穩的英語。當主人公管傢在第一天的大英帝國小清新鄉村旅行結束後躺在床上心算什麼是“(職業的)尊嚴”,我從心底由衷地發齣瞭一聲“艸”。
評分中文版太不順暢,原文行雲流水,極具閱讀感。石黑對氛圍的營造和節奏的把控力一流,讓人陷入情緒中難以自拔。傍晚是一日中最美好的時間,卻稍縱即逝。長日的殘餘且行且珍惜。
評分He seems to have no personality, no self, beyond the qualities neccessary for his position. This is because for Stevens, being a butler is not merely a job, it is the core of his identity. At the end of the book, however, he realizes that he has sacrificed his humanity in the name of duty and dignity.
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