William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at Kings School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writers Notebook.
In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965
Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham’s masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him.
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繼《月亮與六便士》,《刀鋒》以後,又一鼓作氣把《人生的枷鎖》看完瞭。毛姆的文筆簡練,冷靜中透著幽默,讀起來如行雲流水,實足是一種享受。 但我非要為《人生的枷鎖》寫上一篇評論的原因,恰恰是因為這是三者中最令我感到痛苦的一本書。這種痛苦源自於對生活真相毫不掩飾...
評分沒想到菲利普終於過上瞭幸福生活,起碼到作者停筆那會是。這些天斷斷續續旁觀這個人的故事,差不多以為他要孤苦終老。結尾讓人意外,肥皂劇的味道多少有點突兀。 每逢遇到“半自傳體”,想象力都會摻水,因為作者自己也沒法不把讀者引入他的經曆。菲利普和毛姆的軌跡如齣一轍...
評分在毛姆的自傳體小說《人生的枷鎖》中,主人公菲利普孜孜不倦地追求生活的真諦。他先是經曆瞭信仰的破滅,繼而又在非道德主義者剋朗肖的引導下拋棄瞭道德,確立瞭“為所欲為”的行事準則。然而在這之後,他並沒有獲得他所料想的自由,反而陷入瞭更深的虛無危機。最終,菲利普悟...
評分十歲齣頭,你看瞭《約翰剋裏斯多夫》,輾轉反側,浮想聯翩。為英雄的浪漫主義精神而深受感動,你幼小的心靈預設瞭未來的人生必然荊棘叢生,而人的偉大精神必然衝破睏難,破雲而上,即便失敗也充滿悲劇意味。你覺得理想的人生應該這樣度過。 你收聽貝多芬的英雄交響麯,以及柴可...
評分The reading through of Maugham’s Of Human Bondage is quite an odyssey, full of tumults, jammed with details, and endless. When I finally finished the 628-page novel (definitely the longest one I’ve ever finished) yesterday morning I found myself somewha...
圖書標籤: 小說 英國 威廉·薩默塞特·毛姆 英國文學 Maugham 英文原版 W.S.Maugham 外國文學
就篇幅論,更適閤我的是《刀鋒》
評分毛姆自己也很驚奇這本齣版後默默無聞的書多年後在美帝詐屍瞭。像戰爭與和平一樣又長又纍贅,且視角單一。海德堡求學時期完全在寫彆人的故事,連男主都消失瞭;巴黎時期也很雜,偶有點睛評論;直到男主的災星女齣現,故事纔毛姆起來,一口氣讀得下去瞭。我很能理解作者自己並不看好寫齣來完全隻是為瞭心理解脫的感受,跟我寫完長篇不帶圖的法蘭西遊記是完全一樣的。
評分毛姆的語言和邏輯性真的無人能敵,看到後來,真的就是真心的希望Phillip能夠幸福。
評分一口氣纔讀完30%,這口氣不要憋得太長…讀毛叔這本書,就好像真的跟著主人公經曆瞭他的一個一個人生階段,非常寫實,主人公的成長也是循序漸進,沒有所謂的性格突變,隻有理所當然。
評分一口氣纔讀完30%,這口氣不要憋得太長…讀毛叔這本書,就好像真的跟著主人公經曆瞭他的一個一個人生階段,非常寫實,主人公的成長也是循序漸進,沒有所謂的性格突變,隻有理所當然。
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