V.S.奈保爾(1932年-),英國移民作傢。齣生於西印度群島特立尼達的一個印度傢庭。奈保爾在西方享有盛譽,他和拉什迪、石黑一雄並稱“英國移民文學三雄”。其作品曾獲毛姆奬、布剋奬等不少重要文學奬、布剋奬等不少重要文學奬,2001年榮獲諾貝爾文學奬,這錶明他“當代經典作傢”地位的確立。重要作品有《米格爾街》、《河灣》、《抵達之謎》等。作品主要寫印度、非洲、加勒比地區人的生存狀況,錶現瞭後殖民時代的世態人心。奈保爾是繼康拉德之後又一位偉大的編年史作傢。
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.
發表於2024-12-25
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這本書是傢書類書籍中不太尋常的一類,我也是從不同的角度來閱讀這部傢書。對比《傅雷傢書》,《梁啓超傢書》(我僅讀過的兩本)來看,也許這就是不同文化的差異。傅雷和梁啓超兩位大傢都是從傢長的角度,以一個“經驗豐富”的長輩的口氣,或嚴肅或和藹,來把自己希望的情感和...
評分奈保爾的父親在給他的信中寫道:“苦難——這是生活的一道興奮劑,像夜晚一樣自然。它使我們對幸福的享受變得更加強烈。” 這位父親還對兒子說:“不要刻意地去討好任何人,除瞭你自己。”“要寫肚子裏的,而不是麵子上的東西。”“不要讓你自己變成焦慮的獵物,……不要炫耀,...
評分坐公車,從住的傢晃悠到報社,翻閱《奈保爾傢書》。一本來往於英國牛津與西印度特立尼達的父子書信集。 聽父親講自己始終熱愛的寫作生涯。他一直默默無聞,做著報紙的記者編輯工作,卻始終熱愛文學,熱愛寫作。他也告訴兒子,不要放任自己默默無聞,但是如果默默無聞瞭也沒關...
評分生活是如此的殘酷而凶狠,常常是還沒有從前一個浪頭的摧殘下爬起來,就被下一個浪頭狠狠的繼續拍倒。對某些人來說,活著,就是人生最大的摺磨。希望,隻是個虛無縹緲的東西,唯一可能來自於永不停歇的奮鬥,奮鬥,深刻的思考,繼續奮鬥,人類的競爭是如此的激烈,以至於,隻有...
評分這本書是傢書類書籍中不太尋常的一類,我也是從不同的角度來閱讀這部傢書。對比《傅雷傢書》,《梁啓超傢書》(我僅讀過的兩本)來看,也許這就是不同文化的差異。傅雷和梁啓超兩位大傢都是從傢長的角度,以一個“經驗豐富”的長輩的口氣,或嚴肅或和藹,來把自己希望的情感和...
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