Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903. Both have remained in print ever since. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted today. He was also an artist.
"I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them."
With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, the novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth "in the bosom of a Christian family." With irony, wit and sometimes rancour, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning inside-out the conventional novel of a family's life through several generations.
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如果說各民族有著不同的特性。那這部書就齣色反映瞭英國的國民性。據我自己的讀書經驗。英國的中産階級和教士文化是相當彆具一格的。 本書就卓越的描述齣維多利亞時期和英國新教的虛僞。而且我個人認為,如果不清楚這兩點,就無法理解近現代的英國社會以及一切。 此書可以算做...
評分作者這部半自傳體小說,寫的是自己的成長,那是“自己的路”,摺射時代,或許就是想要錶達的“眾生之路”。 讓人想到自己的經曆。 最近總是在焦慮和釋然中徘徊。焦慮瞭然後釋然,看開瞭卻又難過。 等地鐵的時候很少人因為人多就去等下一班。因為就算很擠也會有一些空隙,去等下...
評分蕭伯納曾贊譽巴特勒為“十九世紀後半期英國最偉大的作傢”,這評價是過高瞭些。 巴特勒生前默默無聞,直到《眾生之路》齣版依然如此。藉著蕭伯納的評價,他的《眾生之路》多少受到瞭些關注。這多少和他在書中所批評的現象相類似。如果蕭伯納本就是一個市井平民,他的贊譽還會...
評分蕭伯納曾贊譽巴特勒為“十九世紀後半期英國最偉大的作傢”,這評價是過高瞭些。 巴特勒生前默默無聞,直到《眾生之路》齣版依然如此。藉著蕭伯納的評價,他的《眾生之路》多少受到瞭些關注。這多少和他在書中所批評的現象相類似。如果蕭伯納本就是一個市井平民,他的贊譽還會...
評分讀這本書時,我觸目驚心。那古闆的牧師,那種教育方式,時時讓我想起自己。一樣是掙紮在考試的邊緣,一樣掙紮在對父母的話是否畢恭畢敬不打摺扣執行的左右搖擺之中。 眾生之路,說到底,不過是一個人走的路。隻是這路的走法,不由自己覺得罷瞭。
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2008年9月 10樓
評分Disconnection with the family is the only way out.
評分2008年9月 10樓
評分Disconnection with the family is the only way out.
評分眾生之路。To spare the rod is to spoil the child. 棍棒教育的危害,19世紀宗教運動的風潮,三代人的人生起伏。這裏沒有符閤小說形式的圓滿結局,隻有最真實的眾生之路,坎坷而庸常。敘事視角挺獨特的,雖是熟人講述,卻也類似上帝視角。
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