William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.
His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in 'Of Human Bondage' , Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays.
During World War I, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service . He travelled all over the world, and made many visits to America. After World War II, Maugham made his home in south of France and continued to move between England and Nice till his death in 1965.
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius.
發表於2025-03-07
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幾個月前,我問一朋友生日時想收到什麼禮物。他答曰:大美妞兒~我笑迴:“書中自有韆鍾粟,書中自有黃金屋,書中自有顔如玉……”他不同意最後那句,旁徵博引地迴我:“……你說念個尼采念個權力意誌……再整薩特啊……德裏達啊……叔本華啊……洛剋啊……祁剋果……再鼓搗鼓搗...
評分每個人心中都住著一個孩子,他總在和現實中的你唱反調,你卻一直不肯拋棄他,甚至你覺得他,纔是真實的你,而那個大傢眼中的你,根本不是你。 他常常被你忽略,就像你會因為工作的忙碌,而疏忽傢人一樣。你對他的愛,也像是對傢人一樣,不會因為時間和距離而消逝,而是越來越...
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評分去年,央視推齣瞭名為《你幸福嗎》的一係列采訪,在路上隨便逮個人就問“你幸福嗎”。在我看來,這采訪最大的問題不在於提問方式的突兀和問題的簡單粗暴,而是它預先把“幸福”設定為一個值得追求與嚮往的目標,甚至是人生唯一目標。這就走嚮瞭墮落的反動派的陣營。 至於“幸...
評分有次跟鄧正來吃飯,席間他批判現在人的“平庸”,我初以為這是精英對平民的歧視,他解釋道:“我說的是平庸,平庸和平凡是兩迴事。平凡的人可以很偉大,而平庸的人即使成功也還是平庸。” 我看《月亮和六便士》的時候,就想起他這段話。 思特裏剋蘭德,在四十多歲的時候,忽然...
圖書標籤: 毛姆 英文原版 小說 Maugham 英國 英國文學 外國文學 文學
自覺看美國人的當代小說基本沒什麼問題,到瞭英國人那膝蓋就要跪碎瞭。我得找中文版看看…
評分Words find themselves too plain to describe the gasping bruteness. What is it to be an artist? Totally moved by the latter part of the novel where the artist was wrapped with devinity and obscenity to the fatal end.
評分Gauguin
評分反復讀多少遍都不為過~~
評分吐血,這一個個人物都是極品啊!Stroeve已經為Beauty & Genius卑微屈膝到不是人瞭,Strickland爲瞭passion for creating beauty可以拋棄人間萬事到這種地步,這真是終極裝逼,內心強大到這個地步還能稱人麽?!不否認沒有人性光輝的作品可以有其脫離人世的美,可怎麽又會成爲世人口中的“天纔美”?可見後人都是裝逼。毛姆叔叔真心太厲害,言辭幽默用絕瞭!
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