Midnight's Children

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, KBE (English pronunciation: /sælˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi/[1]; born 19 June 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He achieved notability with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of The Satanic Verses controversy, with protests from Muslims in several countries. Some of the protests were violent, with Rushdie facing death threats and a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, in February 1989.He was appointed a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to literature" in June 2007.[2] He holds the rank Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. He began a five-year term as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University in 2007.[3] In May 2008 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2008, The Times ranked Rushdie thirteenth on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[4] His latest novel is The Enchantress of Florence, published in June 2008.[5]

出版者:Vintage

作者:SALMAN RUSHDIE

页数:672

出版时间:1995-5-18

价格:GBP 9.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780099578512

图书标签:印度英文原版小说Rushdie文学Salman_Rushdie魔幻现实英国文学

Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts - inner ear and wildly sensitive sense of smell - we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century.

读后感

这本书只用了具有神开辟天地的恢弘气势的前两节就让我激动不已，看完第一部的时候我已经将拉什迪拥戴到那些让我崇敬的伟大作家行列之中，而读罢厚达600页（繁体中文）的全书后，确认这位在孟买度过童年、在英国成长起来的作家心中装着整个印度，外加世界文学的最丰厚遗产...  

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用户评价

掺杂政治和宗教因素的魔幻现实主义小说，读来略觉艰涩~

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由于对印度文化没有认识，所以读得非常困难，但正因此，到最后两章才能感慨颇深。历史、他人、寓言统统汇集了到他身上，构成了他的记忆、行为和个性，而他自身也在参与对他人的塑造，他的下一代身上必将有他自己的身影。虽说是后现代的，但同时也是能列入经典的大部头序列之中的作品。不过我也对如此之多的印度历史事件感到不太适应。对印度读者而言，关于这些事件的每一个字肯定都扣动他们的心弦，但对非历史读者而言，梳理这些事件又实在过于吃力不讨好了。

很特别的小说。在继承了英国文学传统(狄更斯，康拉德最为明显）的同时，创造性的书写了印度二十世纪的历史(个人记忆与集体历史的并置)。可惜的是，作者没有摆脱essentialism的逻辑，在英美主流文坛上屡获好评，“政治正确”的因素不可否认。难怪读完总感觉有那么一点儿别扭。BTW，说起魔幻现实主义的作品，迄今为止我还是认为《百年孤独》为最佳。