In 1910 a young Englishman, Stephen Wraysford, goes to Picardy, France, to learn the textile business. While there he plunges into a love affair with the young wife of his host, a passion so imperative and consuming that it changes him forever. Several years later, with the outbreak of World War I, he finds himself again in the fields of Picardy, this time as a soldier on the Western Front. A strange, occasionally bitter man, Stephen is possessed of an inexplicable will to survive. He struggles through the hideously bloody battles of the Marne, Verdun, and the Somme (in the last named, thirty thousand British soldiers were killed in the first half hour alone), camps for weeks at a time in the verminous trenches, and hunkers in underground tunnels as he watches many of the companions he has grown to love perish. In spite of everything, Stephen manages to find hope and meaning in the blasted world he inhabits.
Sixty years after war's end, his granddaughter discovers, and keeps, Stephen's promise to a dying man. Sebastian Faulks brings the anguish of love and war to vivid life, and leaves the reader's mind pulsating with images that are graphic and unforgettable.
發表於2024-11-22
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花一個半月時間看完瞭《鳥鳴》。書盡管厚,讀來卻並不沉悶。這還要感謝作者塞巴斯蒂安·福剋斯相對通俗的寫法,並沒有在涉及一戰的部分采用宏大敘事,而是把視角轉嚮戰爭中的人性,寫陷於戰爭中的那些孤獨而備受煎熬的靈魂,他們似乎微不足道的苦與樂,他們遙遠的希冀與現實的...
評分翻譯這本書花瞭十個月的時間,每個星期三個全天碼字,其餘時間打工養活自己。翻完之後許多怨言:http://www.douban.com/note/34616931/,為此還和幾個豆友就譯者能不能批評作者這迴事爭論瞭半天,我的答案是肯定的,但是這一篇不講這個事情,隻說說為什麼我隻給它打三顆...
評分翻譯這本書花瞭十個月的時間,每個星期三個全天碼字,其餘時間打工養活自己。翻完之後許多怨言:http://www.douban.com/note/34616931/,為此還和幾個豆友就譯者能不能批評作者這迴事爭論瞭半天,我的答案是肯定的,但是這一篇不講這個事情,隻說說為什麼我隻給它打三顆...
評分 評分圖書標籤: 小說 英國 birdsong 英國文學 SebastianFaulks BBC:100部英國人最喜歡的文學作品 sebastianfaulks 一戰
Great imagination, very convincing. History, no matter how traumatic, should not be hidden or forgotten by later generations.
評分Stephan的部分文筆情節跟最後孫女Elizabeth的部分差異好大,一戰前跟一戰的故事都能感動人,但是最後一部分現代的情節感覺有點剝離,跟前麵的情節聯係感很弱。那些因為各種原因無奈的參與到戰爭中的年輕人真是太可悲瞭,在參戰的那一刻似乎就失去瞭自己原本的身份與原本的生活,並且永遠也要不迴來瞭。
評分boring
評分有聲書太長,最後實在沒堅持下去,棄瞭棄瞭
評分One of the few modern writers who write beautifully...an elegy to WWI.
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