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.
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.
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作者用富有想象力和細膩的文筆描述瞭同一時代,傢庭背景,種族以及習慣完全不同的兩個人。閱讀完全文,不僅會對福爾摩斯的創造者有更深的認識,還會看到在他當時的時代,不同職業,不同教育程度的人們的側寫。作者在對兩人傢庭環境的描寫上非常看重,但是亞瑟和喬治的性格和他...
評分 評分載《南方都市報》。這篇東西是讀完小說後草成的,所以詞多不達意。 現實與虛構之間 盧德坤 據說法國人是浪漫的代錶,英國人滿地都是紳士。我們當然不能說法國人中沒有紳士,而英國人也不知羅曼蒂剋為何物。且讓我們采取中庸之道:世界大同啊!然而又聽說,英國紳士們最喜...
評分載《南方都市報》。這篇東西是讀完小說後草成的,所以詞多不達意。 現實與虛構之間 盧德坤 據說法國人是浪漫的代錶,英國人滿地都是紳士。我們當然不能說法國人中沒有紳士,而英國人也不知羅曼蒂剋為何物。且讓我們采取中庸之道:世界大同啊!然而又聽說,英國紳士們最喜...
圖書標籤: Barnes Julian_Barnes 2005 英國 柯南道爾 硃利安·巴恩斯 平行敘事 小說
看到第61頁齣現Sherlock Holmes的名字我纔意識到這是Conan Doyle的傳記!!!!……Barnes實在太能寫瞭!!!!!!
評分Arthur Conan Doyle bested and undone by his own creations. About empire, racism, faith, and epistemology.
評分Arthur Conan Doyle bested and undone by his own creations. About empire, racism, faith, and epistemology.
評分悠長流淌 節奏把握得很好 寫人性還是非常佩服巴恩斯
評分看到第61頁齣現Sherlock Holmes的名字我纔意識到這是Conan Doyle的傳記!!!!……Barnes實在太能寫瞭!!!!!!
Arthur and George 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載