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

一般。除了有史料价值。奈保尔生活中多操蛋不用这本书也能知道。很奇怪奈保尔的弟弟也干了作家，不知道是不是他爸的影响。 奈保尔可算20世纪现实主义大师，得奖前在中国不红跟这个恐怕也有关系，他的小说基本看不出想象力，但不等于不打动人。 印度人一向近鬼神，但奈保尔在...  

坐公车，从住的家晃悠到报社，翻阅《奈保尔家书》。一本来往于英国牛津与西印度特立尼达的父子书信集。 听父亲讲自己始终热爱的写作生涯。他一直默默无闻，做着报纸的记者编辑工作，却始终热爱文学，热爱写作。他也告诉儿子，不要放任自己默默无闻，但是如果默默无闻了也没关...  

对于奈保尔，看的第一本书是《米格尔街》。 被其吸引是因为别人批评他的那句话，大意是说他庆幸自己的离开，不屑于特立尼达觉得留在那的人都很蠢云云。“从边缘逃往中心，离开无力者投奔有力者。” 相信千千万万个奋力从令人不满的狭隘原生环境中逃离的人，都会对奈保尔的体会...  

对于奈保尔，看的第一本书是《米格尔街》。 被其吸引是因为别人批评他的那句话，大意是说他庆幸自己的离开，不屑于特立尼达觉得留在那的人都很蠢云云。“从边缘逃往中心，离开无力者投奔有力者。” 相信千千万万个奋力从令人不满的狭隘原生环境中逃离的人，都会对奈保尔的体会...