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.
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查爾斯·思特裏剋蘭德的人生大緻分三段:在倫敦、在巴黎(馬賽)和在塔希提。毛姆花瞭最多的篇幅描述他在巴黎的一場大病和一次艷遇,而他在這一場遭遇裏幾乎扮演瞭一個完全的反麵角色,他忘恩負義、毫無同情心和基本的禮貌教養,相對的,除瞭施特略夫的隻言片語,作者對他的繪...
評分前段時間看過一個朋友寫的有關毛姆和黑塞之間的比較,從風格到技巧上都做瞭分析。事實上,兩個人最大的不同,其實在於身份。黑塞骨子裏是哲學傢,盡管披著作傢的外衣,但他的作品是深入而專注於“人類精神狀況的齣路”。而毛姆則是一個典型的作傢,他隻講故事。 “作傢更想去...
評分我終於還是沒能忍住在讀完這篇小說後立即寫一篇書評。自從用瞭多看閱讀之後,我開始逐漸形成給自己注意的章句劃綫,興之所至加上幾句注釋的習慣。這是一不小心就會有損紙質書的書本質量,或者空白處怎麼都寫不下自己的全部想法時難以想象的一種便利。而這部小說給我的感受是,...
評分你肯定有這樣一個朋友吧:在銀行工作,長得一般,業務湊閤,有老婆孩子,勤勤懇懇養傢糊口,不愛說話,但如果開口說話,說的話也多半無趣無味——總之形象非常白開水,在任何一個社交場閤都是角落裏不大起眼的人。事實上你肯定有不止一個這樣的朋友,事實上你自己沒準就是這樣...
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...
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Strickland 為什麼喜歡 Bruegel 呢?
評分扇貝第六本
評分毛姆真是很擅長刻畫令人厭惡的人物。人性枷鎖裏的Mildred同理
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.
評分毛姆還真是仇女,整本書幾乎就沒說過任何女性好話,第一次讀都沒那麼深刻的印象。《刀鋒》相比之下就好多瞭,也許二十多年後隨著閱曆的增長誰都會變寬容吧。這本有點被過譽瞭,也就是字裏行間的警言妙句有點意思。另外,果然跟著薄荷閱讀不管怎樣都能讀完原著……
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