2007諾貝爾文學奬得主
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside—until the birth of their fifth baby. Gruesomely goblin-like in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and violent, Ben has nothing innocent or infant-like about him. As he grows older and more terrifying, Harriet finds she cannot love him, David cannot bring himself to touch him, and their four older children are afraid of him. Understanding that he will never be accepted anywhere, Harriet and David are torn between their instincts as parents and their shocked reaction to this fierce and unlovable child whose existence shatters their belief in a benign world.
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這是12年的某個下午在圖書館裏看完的書。書評寫在空間上瞭。粘過來。 其實對作者的深意仍沒看的很明瞭。 暫且寫一寫我看到的一些吧。 海蕊和大衛,確實像兩個邊緣人,書一開始便反復的說著他們與那個社會的種種格格不入。追求著簡單幸福的生活——多要一些孩子,一個寬敞舒適...
評分從故事的開端,我們就已被告知,小說的男女主人公大衛和海蕊是社會中的異類,他們保守,死闆。兩個類似的孤獨靈魂彼此吸引,並無比熱衷於生育孩子,鑄造一個十分溫馨熱鬧充滿愛的傢庭。 結婚後的幾年也的確如他們所願,四個孩子美麗乖巧,每一次傢庭聚會都讓他們樂享其中,漸漸...
評分 評分一個故事的兩個角度 ——讀多麗絲•萊辛的《第五個孩子》和《浮世畸零人》 西門媚/文 這兩本書看似是一個故事的上下兩部分,但給人的心理感受卻完全不同。 讀《第五個孩子》的時候,完全想不到後麵還有那樣一個視角和結局。 《第五個孩子》講述一對平凡的夫婦,有著普通...
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Tremendously disturbed but I think deep down we're all at some level fascinated by a darker Quasimodo. As if compelled to see he finally bring about annihilation of everything we ever believed to be undestructable — the only right thing to be done. Totally understand Harriet, maternal, Catholic and fatalistic, but hell, I would go nowhere near her.
評分很難想象這麼拖遝,這麼不可怕不可信的毫無想象力的小說的作者是諾貝爾文學奬獲得者。或者諾貝爾文學奬其實不過也隻是《楚天都市報》編輯的水平。
評分sorta half-baked, unsatisfactory ending for a novel with such emphasis on pushing the plot forward
評分Tremendously disturbed but I think deep down we're all at some level fascinated by a darker Quasimodo. As if compelled to see he finally bring about annihilation of everything we ever believed to be undestructable — the only right thing to be done. Totally understand Harriet, maternal, Catholic and fatalistic, but hell, I would go nowhere near her.
評分sorta half-baked, unsatisfactory ending for a novel with such emphasis on pushing the plot forward
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