First Love, Last Rites

Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize, and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award, as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets. He has also written screenplays, plays, television scripts, a children’s book, and the libretto for an oratorio. He lives in London.BiographyOne of the most distinguished novelists of his generation, Ian McEwan was born in England and spent much of his childhood traveling with his father, an army officer stationed in the Far East, Germany, and North Africa. He graduated from Sussex University in 1970 with a degree in English Literature and received his MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.McEwan burst upon the literary scene in the mid-1970s with two short story collections that highlighted with equal clarity his early predilection for disturbing, somewhat shocking subject matter and his dazzling prose style. Similarly, his 1978 debut novel, The Cement Garden, attracted as much attention for its unsettling storyline as for its stylistic brilliance. But even though his early work was saturated with deviant sex, violence, and death (so much so that he earned the nickname "Ian MacAbre"), he was never dismissed as a mere purveyor of cheap thrills. In fact, two of his most provocative works (The Comfort of Strangers and Enduring Love) were shortlisted for major U.K. awards.As he has matured, McEwan has moved away from disquieting themes like incest, sadism, and psychotic obsession to explore more introspective human dramas. In an interview with The New Republic he described his literary evolution in this way:"One passes the usual milestones in life: You have children, you find that whether you like it or not, you have a huge investment in the human project somehow succeeding. You become maybe a little more tolerant as you get older. Pessimism begins to feel something like a badge that you perhaps do not wear so easily. There is something delicious and reckless about the pessimism of being 21. And when you get older you feel maybe a little more delicate and hope that things will flourish. You don't want to take a stick to it."Among many literary honors, McEwan has been awarded the Somerset Maugham Award for First Love, Last Rites (1976) and the Whitbread Prize for The Child in Time (1987). Nominated three times for the Booker Prize, he finally won in 1998 for Amsterdam. He has also received the WH Smith Literary Award and National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award for Atonement (2001) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Saturday (2005).

出版者:Vintage Books

作者:Ian McEwan

页数:165

出版时间:1994-1

价格:USD 14.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780679750192

图书标签:IanMcEwan小说英国英国文学英文原版Ian_McEwan外国文学文学

Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness. These tales are as horrifying as anything written by Clive Barker or Stephen King, but they are crafted with a lyricism and intensity that compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying.

读后感

其实还包括译名 这俩都搞得无比小清新。 当然了，封面可以改，但这译名真不知道咋改才能不清新。 起初我是买错了，以为是另外一作家的 就是写自杀俱乐部和失恋排行榜那哥们。 这本小说腰封如是说： 布克诸奖没啥稀奇，诺奖只是时间问题。 鄙夷的鼻哼了一声，就凭借失恋排行榜...  

其实还包括译名 这俩都搞得无比小清新。 当然了，封面可以改，但这译名真不知道咋改才能不清新。 起初我是买错了，以为是另外一作家的 就是写自杀俱乐部和失恋排行榜那哥们。 这本小说腰封如是说： 布克诸奖没啥稀奇，诺奖只是时间问题。 鄙夷的鼻哼了一声，就凭借失恋排行榜...  

一本小书，前后被名人的序评夹着，八篇小说，独立的文本，一以贯之的脉络，青春的朝气与幽暗，敏锐与颓废，极度的狂想与沉湎，少年时代的一个个横切面，铺陈出华丽的残酷。麦克尤恩的笔法精湛，小说中色泽明亮与幽暗对称，彷徨与狂想并存；青春的绿草地上，满是幽灵的幻影...  

在我的书架上，有一些书是我打算用我一生时间一读再读的，目前这样的书大概有三、五十本。当我读完《最初的爱情，最后的仪式》之后，我决定将这本书也归为此列。当然，我必须说明的是，我想要一读再读的主要是这部短篇小说集中的这两篇：《家庭制造》和《蝴蝶》。 在我看来，这...  

用户评价

比较喜欢Homemade还有Conversation With a Cupboard Man（这两个算最清口味了的吧）McEwan大叔真蛮牛，用一种平淡得貌似琐碎的口吻向你讲着各种SM与人性的扭曲。

dark, complex, perverse, morbid, at times disturbing, but flowing imagination. fascinating.

如你喜欢怪人，其实我很美。

看了柴静写冯唐的那篇文，里面提到的就是这本书嘛！口素我就是搞不懂作者是要表达神马啊啊啊！！！就是一个又一个的心理变态么？？？

写的非常好，有些故事让人惊讶的同时又有一种of course的恍然大悟感。故事参差有高低，但整体有一种对世界、人性的恶意，对世界、人性的无情攻击。然而我们无法反驳，因为，of course..