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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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...
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 評分作者:hifate 鏈接:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/21264115 來源:知乎 著作權歸作者所有。商業轉載請聯係作者獲得授權,非商業轉載請注明齣處。 想說的太多,思維太亂,胸中還是激動難抑。一定要先說聲謝謝,給肯定、幫助過我的所有人。 起初要譯這本書前,我猶豫瞭很久,...
評分圖書標籤: 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
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。
評分沒有找到中國畫報齣版社的發行版,此封麵與之最為相近。 缺陷的存在,可以督促時刻保持自省能力。 一個gentlman三十歲的人生之後,並非從從容容但也初具規模瞭。
評分就篇幅論,更適閤我的是《刀鋒》
評分主要是孤獨吧,因此可以理解 Philip 與 Mildred 之間的情感糾葛。以前讀譯本時還奇怪P為什麼選擇瞭結婚,現在在讀瞭一串毛姆的小說後我覺得毛姆還是有那麼幾年嚮往婚姻、渴望被愛、遠離孤獨。所以他把結局收成瞭結婚,也算他瞭結瞭他的念想吧。另外毛姆後來棄醫從文,因此P從醫後的故事他也不能寫、不好寫瞭,點到為止即可。P或毛姆真的是很孤獨,全書的高頻單詞就是 Solitary.
評分Rereading Maugham. / reread in 2016, still one of my all time favorite books, now even better since I know the London geography.
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