奈保爾(Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul),英籍印度裔作傢。1932年8月17日齣生於中美洲特立尼達和多巴哥。18歲赴牛津大學求學,獲得文學學士學位後定居英國。曾任BBC“加勒比之聲”欄目主持人3年。遊走世界各地寫作多年,批判發展中社會的精神和物質的雙重匱乏,語多辛辣詼諧。主要作包括《靈異推拿師》(約翰·盧埃林·裏斯紀念奬),《米格爾大街》(薩莫塞特·毛姆奬),《黑暗之地》,《印度:一個傷痕纍纍的文明》,《自由國度》(1971年布剋奬),《河灣》,《半生》,《魔種》等。1990年獲英國皇室封爵;1993年,成為英國大衛·柯恩文學奬首位獲奬者,該奬旨在錶彰“尚在人世的英國作傢一生的成就”。2001年,因“作品中兼具犀利的敘述與正直的洞察,迫使我們正視那些被壓抑的曆史的存在”,被授予諾貝爾文學奬。
From the Nobel laureate–a spare, searing new novel about identity and idealism, and their ability to shape or destroy us.
Willie Chandran–whom we first met in Half a Life–is a man in his early forties who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him, as if he could truly know himself by becoming what others imagine him to be. His life has taken him from his native India to England, Africa in its last colonial moment, and Berlin, until finally it returns him to his homeland. Succumbing to the demanding encouragement of his sister–and his own listlessness–Willie joins an underground movement in India ostensibly devoted to unfettering the lower castes. But seven years of revolutionary campaigns and several years in jail convince him that the revolution “had nothing to do with the village people we said we were fighting for…[that] our ideas and words were more important than their lives and their ambitions for themselves.” And, as well, he feels himself further than ever “from his own history and…from the ideas of himself that might have come to him with that history.”
When Willie returns to England where, thirty years before, his psychological and physical wanderings began, he finds the fruit of another unexpected social revolution (more magic seeds), and comes to see himself as a man “serving an endless prison sentence”–a revelation that may finally release him into his true self.
Magic Seeds is a masterpiece, written with all the depth and resonance, the clarity of vision and precision of language, that are the hallmarks of this brilliant writer.
發表於2025-04-27
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奈保爾72歲時最後一部作品,題目其實很令人睏惑。這部作品全篇充滿瞭苦澀。男主人公從來沒有過正經的事業,始終在到處流浪,他本身的意見似乎並不重要,他更多是個見證者。威利齣場時已經40多歲瞭,他早年在倫敦上學,遇見一個葡萄牙裔非洲人,兩人結婚在非洲待瞭十八年,無所...
評分比起十九世紀獲得諾貝爾奬的黑塞的《在輪下》,我還是更喜歡二十世紀的奈保爾的《魔種》。 可以清楚地看見文學的進步。十九世紀的時候似乎因為浪漫主義在作祟,作傢們總是喜歡找個僻靜的地方一呆就是幾年,不與城市做什麼交流,滿心恬靜地種草散布,覺得這樣的生活完美無缺,...
評分一顆魔種,代錶瞭任何東西。 可以是一種理想;可以是一份救贖;可以是一杯美酒;可以…… 看它的發展方嚮瞭,當然,過程很重要。 奈保爾的書我就隻看過這一本,不好做較全麵的評價。 反正主人公威利給我的感受就是每個人都有自己的理想,但總是比現實所左右。而且絕大多數情況...
評分隻看到三分之一,但是我已經被裏麵的世界所蠱惑瞭:這是怎樣的世界?為瞭心中的理想,甘願拋棄一切。 對於思想的力量,我一直不懷疑。也因為如此,我無法讓自己踏入某一種思想的領域--那裏過於深沉,我怕自己承受不瞭。我願意遠遠地看著它們。 我不知道最後結局是如何的,但...
評分《魔種》看完瞭,18.8萬字,12章節,第一和最後章節可算楔子及尾聲,前半部分講第三人稱主人公“威利”迴到故鄉印度叢林中參加遊擊隊的經曆,後半部分講威利迴到倫敦,開始反省及思考如何度過下半生。其中穿插迴憶瞭過去的時光,在印度的童年,在倫敦的短暫的青年求學時光,在...
圖書標籤: V.S.Naipaul 小說 India 顔歌 英國
初識奈保爾。
評分文筆 &《Half A Life》 續本更有深度更趨於結論的不隻關於文化更關乎於心靈的探索。
評分初識奈保爾。
評分文筆 &《Half A Life》 續本更有深度更趨於結論的不隻關於文化更關乎於心靈的探索。
評分文筆 &《Half A Life》 續本更有深度更趨於結論的不隻關於文化更關乎於心靈的探索。
Magic Seeds 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載