Imagine that the novelist -- his name here is Eugene Pota -- realizes that the days are dwindling and he needs to come up with one more novel. But what should he write? That first novel, the one that launched him, the one that made him into the cultural icon he seems fated to remain, has become a touchstone for his life, and his life since has pretty much been a critical failure. And now, when he is faced with the compulsion to write one more novel, to take a stab at the even bigger one, what should it be?
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man follows the journey that Eugene Pota undertakes as he sifts through the detritus of his life in an effort to settle on a subject for his final work. He talks to everyone, including his wife, his old lovers, and his editor. While everyone has ideas, no one offers any real answers. Written with sections that alternate between Pota's real-life efforts to settle on what novel to write and his many and various false starts writing that novel, Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man is a rare and enthralling look into the artist's search for creativity.
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作為約瑟夫海勒的最後一部小說,《一位老年藝術傢的畫像》被認為是對於“美國戰後文學最重要的作傢之一”的海勒的“極為給力的一瞥”。但這確確實實是一部不落俗套的小說,因為它講述的不是故事,而是寫作。它的情節也很簡單——一個老年作傢想重現輝煌,寫齣一本自己寫...
評分作為約瑟夫海勒的最後一部小說,《一位老年藝術傢的畫像》被認為是對於“美國戰後文學最重要的作傢之一”的海勒的“極為給力的一瞥”。但這確確實實是一部不落俗套的小說,因為它講述的不是故事,而是寫作。它的情節也很簡單——一個老年作傢想重現輝煌,寫齣一本自己寫...
評分作為約瑟夫海勒的最後一部小說,《一位老年藝術傢的畫像》被認為是對於“美國戰後文學最重要的作傢之一”的海勒的“極為給力的一瞥”。但這確確實實是一部不落俗套的小說,因為它講述的不是故事,而是寫作。它的情節也很簡單——一個老年作傢想重現輝煌,寫齣一本自己寫...
評分作為約瑟夫海勒的最後一部小說,《一位老年藝術傢的畫像》被認為是對於“美國戰後文學最重要的作傢之一”的海勒的“極為給力的一瞥”。但這確確實實是一部不落俗套的小說,因為它講述的不是故事,而是寫作。它的情節也很簡單——一個老年作傢想重現輝煌,寫齣一本自己寫...
評分作為約瑟夫海勒的最後一部小說,《一位老年藝術傢的畫像》被認為是對於“美國戰後文學最重要的作傢之一”的海勒的“極為給力的一瞥”。但這確確實實是一部不落俗套的小說,因為它講述的不是故事,而是寫作。它的情節也很簡單——一個老年作傢想重現輝煌,寫齣一本自己寫...
圖書標籤: 黑色幽默 英文原版 美國文學 外國文學 Joseph Heller
這是一本關於writing而非story的小說。
評分這是一本關於writing而非story的小說。
評分這是一本關於writing而非story的小說。
評分這是一本關於writing而非story的小說。
評分這是一本關於writing而非story的小說。
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載