The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the novel The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015). He also authored Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and co-edited Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (University of Hawaii Press, 2014). An associate professor at the University of Southern California, he teaches in the departments of English and American Studies and Ethnicity.He has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (2011-2012), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2008-2009) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2004-2005). He has also received residencies, fellowships, and grants from the Luce Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the James Irvine Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation.His short fiction has been published in Manoa, Best New American Voices 2007, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection, Narrative Magazine, TriQuarterly, the Chicago Tribune, and Gulf Coast, where his story won the 2007 Fiction Prize.His writing has been translated into Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Spanish, and he has given invited lectures in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Germany. He is finishing an academic book titled War, Memory, Identity.

出版者:Grove Press

作者:Viet Thanh Nguyen

页数:384

出版时间:2015-4-7

价格:USD 26.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780802123459

图书标签:小说越南普利策战争英文原版美国外国文学历史

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A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties.

It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.

读后感

谈起越南战争，美国人似乎是很纠结的。这场二战后美国唯一打输了的对外战争，曾令这个超级大国颜面扫地，民心、军队士气、国家影响力一度跌落低谷，也由此催生了一批痛定思痛、反思越战的文艺作品，影响深远者有好莱坞拍摄的经典电影《现代启示录》、《猎鹿人》等可资为证。然...  

用户评价

作者对得起他English prof的职位的 用GRE词汇写了这本小说。作为Asian American literature, 这本书是要得满分的 即魔幻又现实。然而以我个人的审美偏好来说，仅仅reflective isn't enough, one needs sensational charms to be a masterpiece（还是说我审美观已被white washed

A lack of knowledge about the Vietnam War made me detach from the novel. Nguyen was very critical of the role of the Americans in Vietnam. Neither grateful nor confrontational, he had such an angry tone towards American culture and Southern Vietnamese politics. Like his satirical approach to a political connoted literature work. SY 8/9

A lack of knowledge about the Vietnam War made me detach from the novel. Nguyen was very critical of the role of the Americans in Vietnam. Neither grateful nor confrontational, he had such an angry tone towards American culture and Southern Vietnamese politics. Like his satirical approach to a political connoted literature work. SY 8/9

我擦太感同身受了：一个越共在西贡以及美国做卧底，成了两面人。讲美国的地方太一针见血了。"The eternal misconceptions and misunderstandings between East and West, and the moral dilemma faced by people forced to choose not between right and wrong, but right and right.“ 结尾是精华，讲越南的地方也同样的一针见血，让我一个中国人欲哭无泪。当主人公终于come to terms with他的双重身份，w/devastating consequences. Scathing, bleak, & utterly beautiful

2017.9.8-9.12 最大的阅读愉悦来自语言的繁复幽默和文化上的共鸣。情节上其实感觉一般，最后的几章个人感觉有点头重脚轻。