David Lodge(1935– ), English novelist and critic, b. London, grad. University College, London (B.A., M.A.) and the Univ. of Birmingham (Ph.D.). Lodge taught at the Univ. of Birmingham (1960–87), during which time he wrote studies of Graham Greene (1966) and Evelyn Waugh (1971). His works of criticism, which deal mainly with modern literary theory, include The Language of Fiction (1966), The Modes of Modern Writing (1977), Working with Structuralism (1981), The Art of Fiction (1992), and Consciousness and the Novel (2002). Since 1987 he has been a full-time writer. Lodge has used his deep intimacy with the academic world in many of his novels, which reveal a talent for deft characterization, wry humor, and incisive commentary. At its best, Lodge's fiction combines satire with humane sympathy for his characters. His novels include The Picturegoers (1960), Changing Places (1979), Small World (1985), Nice Work (1988), Paradise News (1991), Therapy (1995), and Thinks... (2001).
Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a witty, original and absorbing account of one man’s effort to come to terms with deafness, ageing and mortality, and the comedy and tragedy of human lives.
When the university merged his Department of English with Linguistics, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the routine of the academic year and has lost his appetite for research. His wife Winifred’s late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort, while the rejuvenation of her appearance makes him uneasily conscious of the age gap between them. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on his aged father who stubbornly refuses to leave the house he is patently unable to live in with safety.
But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss — a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment, leading Desmond into mistakes, misunderstandings and follies. It might be comic for others, but for the deaf person himself, it is no joke. It is his deafness which inadvertently involves Desmond with a young woman whose wayward behaviour threatens to destabilize his life completely.
發表於2024-06-03
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兩周前去fnac的時候無意中看到新書貨架上擺著一本David Lodge的《La vie en sourdine》,David Lodge竟然齣新書瞭而且我一點都不知道。後來迴傢上網一查,原來這本《Deaf Sentence》就是David Lodge最新的一本小說,齣版於今年五月,而法文的翻譯版也是八月底的時候纔剛齣版。...
評分剛纔豆娘她吞瞭我的評論啊啊啊啊啊啊啊 我還是改天再寫(咽淚)。 一句話: ‘If there have been, at various times, trifling misunderstandings in our life, now I see how one was unable to value the passing time.’
評分剛纔豆娘她吞瞭我的評論啊啊啊啊啊啊啊 我還是改天再寫(咽淚)。 一句話: ‘If there have been, at various times, trifling misunderstandings in our life, now I see how one was unable to value the passing time.’
評分圖書標籤: 英國 Lodge DavidLodge 英國文學 小說 戴維洛奇 novel 衰老
結尾稍有點倉促。不過整體還是DL一貫諧謔的風格。tragicomic。
評分appallingly frank
評分結尾稍有點倉促。不過整體還是DL一貫諧謔的風格。tragicomic。
評分結尾稍有點倉促。不過整體還是DL一貫諧謔的風格。tragicomic。
評分4.5分。很快讀完瞭。文彩飛揚。很多話題,失聰、退休、年老、新人物、新性格,沒有想像中的那麼值得期待,也沒有一以貫之得難以接受。有時候是會覺得,人生確實值得嘲笑一番,再失去一些興趣的。
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