Arthur and George

Julian Barnes is the author of eight novels, including Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, England, England and Love Etc., and two collections of short stories, Cross Channel and The Lemon Table.

出版者:Jonathan Cape

作者:Julian Barnes

页数:505

出版时间:2006

价格:107.00元

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780099492733

图书标签:BarnesJulian_Barnes2005英国柯南道尔朱利安·巴恩斯平行叙事小说

Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events, which made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages.

George Edjali's father is Indian, his mother Scottish. When the family begins to receive vicious anonymous letters, many about their son, they put it down to racial prejudice. They appeal to the police, to no less than the Chief Constable, but to their dismay he appears to suspect George of being the letters' author. Then someone starts slashing horses and livestock. Again the police seem to suspect the shy, aloof Birmingham solicitor. He is arrested and, on the flimsiest evidence, sent to trial, found guilty and sentenced to seven years' hard labour.

Arthur Conan Doyle, famous as the creator of the world's greatest detective, is mourning his first wife (having been chastely in love for ten years with the woman who was to become his second) when he hears about the Edjali case. Incensed at this obvious miscarriage of justice, he is galvanised into trying to clear George's name.

With a mixture of detailed research and vivid imagination, Julian Barnes brings to life not just this long-forgotten case, but also the inner lives of these two very different men. The reader sees them both with stunning clarity, and almost inhabits them as they face the vicissitudes of their lives, whether in the dock hearing a verdict of guilty, or trying to live an honourable life while desperately in love with another woman. This is a novel in which the events of a hundred years ago constantly set off contemporary echoes, a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race; about what we think, what we believe, and what we know. Julian Barnes has long been recognised as one of Britain's most remarkable writers. While those already familiar with his work will enjoy its elegance, its wit, its profound wisdom about the human condition, Arthur & George will surely find him an entirely new audience.

读后感

载《南方都市报》。这篇东西是读完小说后草成的，所以词多不达意。 现实与虚构之间 卢德坤 据说法国人是浪漫的代表，英国人满地都是绅士。我们当然不能说法国人中没有绅士，而英国人也不知罗曼蒂克为何物。且让我们采取中庸之道：世界大同啊！然而又听说，英国绅士们最喜...  

载《南方都市报》。这篇东西是读完小说后草成的，所以词多不达意。 现实与虚构之间 卢德坤 据说法国人是浪漫的代表，英国人满地都是绅士。我们当然不能说法国人中没有绅士，而英国人也不知罗曼蒂克为何物。且让我们采取中庸之道：世界大同啊！然而又听说，英国绅士们最喜...  

载《南方都市报》。这篇东西是读完小说后草成的，所以词多不达意。 现实与虚构之间 卢德坤 据说法国人是浪漫的代表，英国人满地都是绅士。我们当然不能说法国人中没有绅士，而英国人也不知罗曼蒂克为何物。且让我们采取中庸之道：世界大同啊！然而又听说，英国绅士们最喜...  

作者用富有想象力和细腻的文笔描述了同一时代，家庭背景，种族以及习惯完全不同的两个人。阅读完全文，不仅会对福尔摩斯的创造者有更深的认识，还会看到在他当时的时代，不同职业，不同教育程度的人们的侧写。作者在对两人家庭环境的描写上非常看重，我很赞同他的剖析。但是亚...  

虽然这本书被吹捧为“21世纪年度最佳外国小说-评选中2005年度英国文学入选作品”，如何如何XX，但我的感觉这就是一本很垃圾的书。 再看看这个作者写的另一本书名《福楼拜的鹦鹉》，虽然还没看过。但起码读了亚瑟与乔治之后觉得，此人就象中国现在的某些人，靠拉扯点名人之类的...

用户评价

看到第61页出现Sherlock Holmes的名字我才意识到这是Conan Doyle的传记！！！！……Barnes实在太能写了！！！！！！

Arthur Conan Doyle bested and undone by his own creations. About empire, racism, faith, and epistemology.

悠长流淌 节奏把握得很好 写人性还是非常佩服巴恩斯

悠长流淌 节奏把握得很好 写人性还是非常佩服巴恩斯

悠长流淌 节奏把握得很好 写人性还是非常佩服巴恩斯