发表于2024-11-07
Nights at the Alexandra (Modern Library) 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 爱尔兰 外国文学 英文原版 英国文学 小说 威廉·特雷弗
Hailed as "probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language" by The New Yorker and "an extraordinarily mellifluous writer, seemingly incapable of composing an ungraceful sentence" by The New York Times Book Review, William Trevor is one of our most elegaic chroniclers of loss.
Set in a provincial Irish town against the backdrop of the Second World War, Nights at the Alexandra is a masterpiece of short fiction. Tracing the reminiscences of a fifty-eight-year-old Irish cinema owner named Harry, the story recounts the years during Harry's adolescence when he forges an unlikely friendship with an ÈmigrÈ couple recently arrived in his small town. Gently imperious yet strikingly beautiful, Frau Messinger, a young British woman married to a much older German, introduces a measure of color into Harry's otherwise black-and-white existence.
Disappointed by his dull family and his stifling boarding school, Harry soaks up Frau Messinger's stories of her youth and indulges her numerous flights of fancy. When Mr. Messinger announces his plans to build the town's first cinema and asks Harry to work its ticket window, Harry for the first time begins to imagine a life of possibility rather than privation. But the young man's newfound sense of himself comes not without its price, as William Trevor masterfully limns the border between innocence and experience, creating a subtle portrait of an adolescent moment that has the power to shape an entire lifetime.
How stories haunt us and become our own stories.
评分挺冷門和偏早期的作品,但敘事的技巧已很圓熟了,從中年男人到作為小男孩的兒時回憶,不時穿插閃回,視角的轉換毫無痕跡。還未到特雷弗後來那種如臻化境的對世情世故一眼洞察的階段,但對不同人物(尤其這次是略具難度的小男孩)的心理狀態的摹仿仍見功力。
评分挺冷門和偏早期的作品,但敘事的技巧已很圓熟了,從中年男人到作為小男孩的兒時回憶,不時穿插閃回,視角的轉換毫無痕跡。還未到特雷弗後來那種如臻化境的對世情世故一眼洞察的階段,但對不同人物(尤其這次是略具難度的小男孩)的心理狀態的摹仿仍見功力。
评分特雷弗一贯的风格,声音安静,人物小众,句式简单优雅,故事穿透人心,left me wonder, what have I ever done to deserving a good book like this? 八月初雷雨下午,流泪看完,想着那女子,那男孩...
评分How stories haunt us and become our own stories.
Nights at the Alexandra (Modern Library) 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书