Between Father and Son

V.S.奈保尔(1932年-)，英国移民作家。出生于西印度群岛特立尼达的一个印度家庭。奈保尔在西方享有盛誉，他和拉什迪、石黑一雄并称“英国移民文学三雄”。其作品曾获毛姆奖、布克奖等不少重要文学奖、布克奖等不少重要文学奖，2001年荣获诺贝尔文学奖，这表明他“当代经典作家”地位的确立。重要作品有《米格尔街》、《河湾》、《抵达之谜》等。作品主要写印度、非洲、加勒比地区人的生存状况，表现了后殖民时代的世态人心。奈保尔是继康拉德之后又一位伟大的编年史作家。

出版者:Knopf

作者:V.S. Naipaul

页数:0

出版时间:2000-01-25

价格:USD 26.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780375407307

图书标签:immigrant

In 1950, after winning a scholarship from the government of Trinidad, V. S. Naipaul, aged seventeen, left home for the first time. Following a two-week journey by steamer, he arrived in Oxford, England, a world utterly removed from the one he had longed to escape and to which he would never really return. This extraordinary collection of letters gives us, as nothing published previously has, an intimate view of Naipaul's formative years.

It is a story of family members oceans apart, clinging to one another against the sadness of dislocation and isolation: The young Naipaul, desperate not for a degree but to become a writer and make his way in the world. His beloved sister Kamla, anxious and bewildered, away at school in India. And his melancholy but loving father, whose own broken dream of succeeding as a writer would be realized in the singular achievement of his son.

With the satisfactions of a novel, Between Father and Son portrays a deeply affecting family drama, even as it bears witness to the flowering of one of the great literary geniuses of the century.

读后感

奈保尔的精神财富 ——读《奈保尔家书》 ◎ 东渔 一个人的书信包容了这个人的生活轨迹和各种心境，他的世事过往，人情世故，以及思想的变化大抵都会在书信里反映出来。奈保尔作为一名获得过诺贝尔文学奖的出色作家，一个被大众所承认的文学大家，他的思想、...

这本书是家书类书籍中不太寻常的一类，我也是从不同的角度来阅读这部家书。对比《傅雷家书》，《梁启超家书》（我仅读过的两本）来看，也许这就是不同文化的差异。傅雷和梁启超两位大家都是从家长的角度，以一个“经验丰富”的长辈的口气，或严肃或和蔼，来把自己希望的情感和...  

书信体文学之所以重要，是因为它刻录了最真实的个人历史。已被遗忘、历经时光洗练的思绪或感情像石头似的再次被抛入记忆长河里，我们则得以在川上望见激起的涟漪。 最出人意料的书信集？V.S.奈保尔难得一见的感性时刻 我们所知的维迪亚达尔•苏雷吉普拉萨德•奈保尔爵士，...  

这本书是家书类书籍中不太寻常的一类，我也是从不同的角度来阅读这部家书。对比《傅雷家书》，《梁启超家书》（我仅读过的两本）来看，也许这就是不同文化的差异。傅雷和梁启超两位大家都是从家长的角度，以一个“经验丰富”的长辈的口气，或严肃或和蔼，来把自己希望的情感和...