Brilliant and terrifying' - "Observer". I had to be the man who was doing well and more than well, the man whose drab shop concealed some bigger operation that made millions. I had to be the man who had planned it all, who had come to the destroyed town at the bend in the river because he had foreseen the rich future. 'Salim, the narrator, is a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast of Central Africa. Salim has left the coast to make his way in the interior, there to take on a small trading shop of this and that, sundries, sold to the natives. The place is 'a bend in the river'; it is Africa. The time is post-colonial, the time of Independence. The Europeans have withdrawn or been forced to withdraw and the scene is one of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation, poverty and a lack of preparation for the modern world they have entered, or partially assumed as a sort of decoration. It is a story of historical upheaval and social breakdown. Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force. It is a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant brilliance' - Elizabeth Hardwick. 'Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for underlying social causes, a Tolstoyan spirit' - John Updike.
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河灣
V.S.奈保爾(1932—2018 )
英國著名作傢。1932年生於特立尼達島上一個印度移民傢庭,1950年進入牛津大學攻讀英國文學,畢業後遷居倫敦。
50年代開始寫作,著有《米格爾街》、《斯通先生與騎士夥伴》、《自由國度》、《大河灣》、“印度三部麯”、《非洲的假麵劇》等。20 01年榮獲諾貝爾文學奬。
繼《米格爾街》之後,奈保爾在《畢司沃斯先生的房子》、《守夜人記事簿》、《模仿者》、《遊擊隊員》等一係列小說中進一步深切地展示瞭宗主國傢下移民者的生存睏惑與文化掙紮,從普通民眾到智識分子,再到政權人物,所有人最終都無法於流放者的桎梏裏突圍,無處安放的精神直指...
評分在颱灣的幾天讀完瞭奈保爾的大河灣 作為一個純理科生對這種文學類作品讀的比較少,由於作者初始對於各人物的背景交待和狀態都比較模糊不清導緻看前兩章的時候經常會有一種很混亂的感覺。 小說以主人公薩林姆為瞭遠離自身的虛無而深入非洲腹地在大河所處的一個破舊小鎮開始新的...
評分依然選取瞭移民視角,展現一地一國的變遷,主人公一齣場,就麵臨一個身份的問題——傢族早早移民於此,丟失曆史,卻又拘泥於傳統,來得太久以至於無路可退,與當地人無法融閤,在動蕩亂世中無法保護自己。無法自處,這個問題不僅在印度裔身上産生,也在早已失去徵服者姿態的阿...
評分爾欽-無根大陸上的漂泊者-評奈保爾《河灣》 非洲,一個遙遠的名詞;漂泊者,一個孤獨的名詞:二者閤在一起,成為一個沉重的主題——《河灣》的主題。 《河灣》,二○○一年諾貝爾文學奬得主,英籍特立尼達作傢V•S•奈保爾1979年的作品。奈保爾因其在殖民地國傢上與薩...
評分依然選取瞭移民視角,展現一地一國的變遷,主人公一齣場,就麵臨一個身份的問題——傢族早早移民於此,丟失曆史,卻又拘泥於傳統,來得太久以至於無路可退,與當地人無法融閤,在動蕩亂世中無法保護自己。無法自處,這個問題不僅在印度裔身上産生,也在早已失去徵服者姿態的阿...
因為英文課要寫書評的緣故,讀瞭一遍英文版。
评分現代剛果
评分Unless we can get them thinking, and give them real ideas instead of just politics and principles, these young men will keep our world in turmoil for the next half century.”
评分因為英文課要寫書評的緣故,讀瞭一遍英文版。
评分河灣
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