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2025-03-04
Birdsong 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
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...
評分當看完一本537頁的小說後,明白瞭為什麼塞巴斯蒂安•福剋斯在尋求齣版時,執意的不肯刪除哪怕一個章節。每一個細節都是那麼的必須,每一次細微的場景描寫都那麼的真實,每一句對話都在揭示人物的內心。《鳥鳴》,剛在圖書館看到時,就被書名給吸引住瞭,盡管簡介瞭說的那場戰...
評分看斯蒂芬的時候總讓我想起來《飄》裏麵的艾希禮,都是英俊的外錶下隱藏著一顆悲觀的心。斯蒂芬跟阿賽爾和貝哈一傢去郊遊時,竟然會想到每個人的身體終將成為化為塵土,甚至有老鼠在裏麵打洞。這種聯想讓人震驚,這跟他的人生經曆有關,但就是這份悲觀和冷靜也恰恰包含著某種讓...
評分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...
評分好厚的一本書。我首先看到的是戰爭中的人!戰場上的殺戮!人性、內心的煎熬!其實,抗日戰爭中的戰士們和小老百姓們是值得國人、史學傢、小說傢們永遠關注研究的,目前,我隻看到瞭《無傢》。 小說極力所錶現的是對人的愛,而不僅僅是男女的情愛。我看到瞭人性的光輝!這是基督...
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
When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.
評分One of the few modern writers who write beautifully...an elegy to WWI.
評分When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.
評分One of the few modern writers who write beautifully...an elegy to WWI.
評分上下學路上聽的有聲書,真心沒有精力看書瞭。下周開始要好好規劃時間,擠齣時間看書。
Birdsong 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載