Michel Faber's work has been published in twenty countries and received several literary awards. He lives in Scotland.
Biography
Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.
Thus Michel Faber lures readers into the Victorian saga of The Crimson Petal and the White, a novel that has earned Faber comparisons to Charles Dickens and delivered on the promise of his first, markedly different novel Under the Skin. Petal is an exhaustively researched chronicle of 1870s London as seen through the eyes of a young prostitute whose ambition carries her (and the reader) to higher levels in society. Faber's come-hither approach to writing the book jives with both his characters and his approach to reading. "I use the metaphor of a novel being like a prostitute, promising the reader a good time, promising intimacy and companionship," he says in a publisher's interview. "Ironically, even though you feel at first that you're being strung along by this beguiling voice, you do end up getting everything it promised you. And more, I hope."
Faber seduced readers with a predatory protagonist in the sci-fi-like Under the Skin. He brings his audience in league with Isserley, an otherworldly character who preys on human men in Scotland for their body parts, then sends the fruits of her labor back to her home territory. Faber's potency as a writer lies in his ability to lead the reader into a story with a number of matter-of-fact details, some sticking out more than others -- things don't get completely strange in Under the Skin until Isserley happens to flick a switch in her car and needles emerge from the passenger seat, sedating the hitchhiker she's picked up.
"The more the writer tries to force the reader to regard something as amazing and special, the more suspicious and bored the reader will become," Faber said in an interview with the Barcelona Review in 2002. "The reader needs to feel that the weirdness or the beauty or the horror in a story has an independent reality from what anyone says about it. That’s an illusion, of course: the writer is responsible. But the illusion is essential." Faber succeeds in crafting these illusions, whether they are the stuff of real life or fantasy. As the New York Times noted in its impressed and bemused review of Under the Skin, "His writing is chaste, dryly humorous and resolutely moral. The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both..."
It's evident from these two novels and from the short story collection Some Rain Must Fall, which mixes fantastic and humdrum settings, that Faber knows no bounds when it comes to genre or milieu. Like his protagonists, he can take his strengths into foreign territories, succeeding by coercion if necessary.
Michel Faber's short stories are markedly diverse-the voice of each is so distinct that the book reads like an anthology of different writers. But Faber's radically inventive style fastens all fifteen stories into a compelling collection deserving of the high praise it garnered in the United Kingdom. One surreal story, "Fish," projects a futuristic world populated with fish swimming in the air. As sharks hover in abandoned corners and human zealots of the Church of the Armageddon loose their fanaticism on the innocent, it's a mother's full-time job to protect her young daughter. The title story, ""Some Rain Must Fall, "" tells of a substitute schoolteacher called on in a crisis, and as she encourages her pupils to express their feelings, we learn the source of the class's trouble: a devastating act that resonates with contemporary America. As Garth Morris wrote in the Mail on Sunday (London), "these are well-crafted pieces of quiet forlorn intensity in a very real world."
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一九九六年,米歇爾 法柏發錶瞭他的第一個短篇《魚》,講述瞭一個母親在海水枯竭,魚在空中遊泳的世界裏如何保護她女兒的故事。這個帶有科幻色彩的短篇小說獲得瞭當年的蘇格蘭短篇小說大奬――馬卡藍奬。此後的兩年,法柏發錶瞭很多小說,獲奬頻頻,評論傢對法柏的小說也連連誇...
評分這本書是由一係列短篇小說組成的。 我很喜歡“雨必將落下”這個名字。生命中該來的總會來,就像雨必將落下一樣。 其他還有幾篇短篇是不太常見的風格,有點奇幻,有點讓人不知所措。但總體來說,worth a try。
評分“他們從不需要證明自己的存在。大傢都接受他們的樣子。有一個空間自然就屬於他們,不需要費力爭取,他們自由快樂、悲傷,可以孤僻也可以樂群,喜歡怎樣都行。” ——書本199頁 短篇《愛的隧道》的一段話。 雨必將落下,書本正文第1頁注釋,此題引自美國詩人亨利·沃茲沃斯·...
評分這本書是由一係列短篇小說組成的。 我很喜歡“雨必將落下”這個名字。生命中該來的總會來,就像雨必將落下一樣。 其他還有幾篇短篇是不太常見的風格,有點奇幻,有點讓人不知所措。但總體來說,worth a try。
評分還是喜歡的。雖然講的事兒奇思異想,又不到像《宇宙奇趣》那種奇異的震動(應該不是題材原因,因為它也有宇宙題材);小故事很抓人,但也不到像洞察日常現象那種真實的震撼(也有很多“現實主義”題材)。每篇好像是從一個稀奇古怪的單薄念頭發展而來,不像有的小說用形態各異...
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the tunnel of love這篇總想全文背誦
評分some rain must fall.
評分亦真亦幻,有種讀卡波特的感覺。
評分the tunnel of love這篇總想全文背誦
評分亦真亦幻,有種讀卡波特的感覺。
Some Rain Must Fall 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載