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。
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 The Europeans have withdrawn or been forced to withdraw and the scene is one of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation, poverty and a lack of preparation for the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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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...
評分他們隻是活著,守著本分,沿襲著先人的活法,對其他一切都不感興趣也從來不問為什麼,逃避討論問題,裝作一切都無所謂。他們冷漠的活著,要彆人來告訴自己他們是誰從哪裏來。 這個民族是脆弱的,在外部未知世界的威脅麵前不堪一擊,是的,非洲式的非洲退縮瞭,歐洲的移植取得瞭...
評分《大河灣》是諾貝爾文學奬得主奈保爾的代錶作之一,可以說該書還原瞭一個多重話語下“真實的非洲”。但是對於非洲,對於曆史不感興趣的人來說,《大河灣》仍舊是傑作,它的主題不僅是非洲,而是與每個人都相關的,更為宏大的東西,那就是變化,以及麵對變化時的身份焦慮與角色...
評分《河灣》,奈保爾關於後殖民時代非洲的名作。因為奈保爾對後殖民地國傢(加勒比海、南美、非洲、南亞等等)的批評,他被認為是保守的“右派”,但是很多時候,奈保爾的批評也未嘗沒有道理。就以非洲為例,殖民地時代結束幾十年瞭,我們還是一直聽到那片大陸傳來的戰爭、飢荒、...
圖書標籤: Naipaul 非洲 英文 的 當代歐美文學 小說
因為英文課要寫書評的緣故,讀瞭一遍英文版。
評分因為英文課要寫書評的緣故,讀瞭一遍英文版。
評分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.”
評分現代剛果
評分因為英文課要寫書評的緣故,讀瞭一遍英文版。
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