Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey[1]) is an American novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus (winner of 1960's National Book Award), cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, and has continued to write critically-acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The Zuckerman novels began with The Ghost Writer in 1979, and include the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997).
发表于2024-11-21
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Along with Saul Bellow's Herzog, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint defined Jewish American literature in the 1960s. Roth's masterpiece takes place on the couch of a psychoanalyst, an appropriate jumping-off place for an insanely comical novel about the Jewish American experience. Roth has written several great books--Goodbye, Columbus and When She Was Good among them, but it is perhaps Portnoy's Complaint for which he is best known.
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评分好几个犹太人朋友给我推荐的书,说保证捧腹大笑,笑不出来可以找他们退货。看了以后果然让人又心酸又好笑。与其说这是犹太移民特有的问题,不如说是美国所有移民共同的经历,diaspora的经历。而经久不衰,大约是因为胸中有拯救人类的理想,而又难以忘记乳房和大腿的人太多,随之而生的愧疚感真是让人捧腹又纠结。
评分因为“幽默”而买来看,书中犹太人的幽默感确实很特别,是兼具反思、自怜和自嘲的幽默感,屡次忍不住大笑,笑完又感觉苦涩。因为家庭的缘故,Portnoy从童年起就在幸福与不幸两个极端之间努力做个好孩子,又因是犹太人的缘故,对外邦人的复杂情绪也是在两个极端之间,所以他长大终于成为一个特别拧巴的人。符合父母的诸多期望,和符合正宗犹太人的要求,是两种不自由,是两副既独立又关联着的枷锁,可是破除又何其难,因为这枷锁早已作为Portnoy人生的标准刻在了心里。最喜欢的段落是Monkey在回纽约的路上关掉收音机,说了六个Wouldn't it(that) be nice(sth.)...还有Portnoy在飞机盘旋准备降落特拉维夫时涌上心头的回忆。
评分一个青春放飞在反叛、自由、性幻想和喜悦中的犹太男孩 一个喋喋不休但望子成龙的老妈 一个便秘中庸的老爸 一个规规矩矩的姐姐。Portnoy后来成了华尔街才俊,三十多不愿结婚,不停地换partner不停地找不到北…… 随波逐流,还是保持自己?对有的人来说,这永远是个问题。
评分一个青春放飞在反叛、自由、性幻想和喜悦中的犹太男孩 一个喋喋不休但望子成龙的老妈 一个便秘中庸的老爸 一个规规矩矩的姐姐。Portnoy后来成了华尔街才俊,三十多不愿结婚,不停地换partner不停地找不到北…… 随波逐流,还是保持自己?对有的人来说,这永远是个问题。
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