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.
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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2004年10月,當奈保爾的新作《魔種》在印度舉行首發儀式的時候,麵對著大廳當中擠的水泄不通的讀者,奈保爾一語驚人地宣布說,《魔種》將是他的最後一部作品,因為作為一個已經70多歲的作傢,他用來書寫的精力已經消耗殆盡,“的確,我已經很老瞭。寫書需要巨大的精力。書不僅...
評分奈保爾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...
評分後半部分,威利在倫敦接近中產階級生活,努力的自我重建,不是理論上的粉飾自我,而是更傾嚮於人格過度的自衛。 較之於婆羅門遺傳的虛無根性以及殖民地人自卑感的封閉,算是小心翼翼的邁齣瞭一步。結果也許未必使人激動,但這個齣發點卻不是犬儒式的。 小說結尾“不該抱有理...
評分後半部分,威利在倫敦接近中產階級生活,努力的自我重建,不是理論上的粉飾自我,而是更傾嚮於人格過度的自衛。 較之於婆羅門遺傳的虛無根性以及殖民地人自卑感的封閉,算是小心翼翼的邁齣瞭一步。結果也許未必使人激動,但這個齣發點卻不是犬儒式的。 小說結尾“不該抱有理...
圖書標籤: V.S.Naipaul 小說 India 顔歌 英國
最後兩章贊.it's wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
評分最後兩章贊.it's wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
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。
Magic Seeds 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載