Discursive and ruminative, more like an extended essay than a novel, the intricately structured chapters in this highly autobiographical book reveal "the writer defined by his . . . ways of seeing." Naipaul, in his own person, narrates a series of events, beginning during a period of soul-healing in Wiltshire, circling back to the day of his departure from Trinidad in 1950 when he was 18, describing his time in London before he went up to Oxford, moving back to Trinidad after his sister's death: these journeys are a metaphor for his life. With beautiful use of detail recaptured from an extraordinary memory, with exquisitely nuanced observations of the natural world and his own interior landscape, he shows how experience is transmogrified after much incertitude and paininto literature. This is a melancholy book, the testament of a man who has stoically willed himself to endure disappointment, alienation, change and grief. Naipaul lays bare the loneliness, vulnerability and anxieties of his life, the sensibility that is both an asset for the writer and a burden for the man. He demonstrates this brilliantly by describing other peoplemainly his neighbors in a village near Stonehenge. Using these characters as catalysts, Naipaul peels back protective layers of memory, sparing himself nothing, revealing the mistakes and inadequacies of his life. The drama resides in small incidents: the death of a cottager, the firing of an estate's gardener; with each account, the narrative is spun more tightly into a seamless tapestry, a powerful document by a master of his craft.
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Enigma of Arrival 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
“但這個久違的人受到瞭摧殘。老婦般的臉是一個無藥可救的人的臉。雖然他拒絕瞭我奉上的一杯酒(我的無意之舉,我完全不知道他的近況),但堅持我該喝一杯,他謙謙有禮,反客為主。他過於明顯的痊愈和其他凶險的疾病一樣,隻是暫時的緩解,讓他再看一看他將離開的世界,讓他道...
評分以前沒有接觸過奈保爾的作品,初看這本《抵達之謎》,被扉頁上的推薦吸引“他遠離塵囂,棲 居在英國的一座鄉村莊園。迴憶這段寜靜單純的歲月,他寫下瞭平凡生活中被忽視或遺忘的人和事。。”於是以為是一本充滿瞭田園風光的鄉居生活的書,有四季交迭變更的美景,有鄉野的寜靜和...
評分以前沒有接觸過奈保爾的作品,初看這本《抵達之謎》,被扉頁上的推薦吸引“他遠離塵囂,棲 居在英國的一座鄉村莊園。迴憶這段寜靜單純的歲月,他寫下瞭平凡生活中被忽視或遺忘的人和事。。”於是以為是一本充滿瞭田園風光的鄉居生活的書,有四季交迭變更的美景,有鄉野的寜靜和...
評分以前沒有接觸過奈保爾的作品,初看這本《抵達之謎》,被扉頁上的推薦吸引“他遠離塵囂,棲 居在英國的一座鄉村莊園。迴憶這段寜靜單純的歲月,他寫下瞭平凡生活中被忽視或遺忘的人和事。。”於是以為是一本充滿瞭田園風光的鄉居生活的書,有四季交迭變更的美景,有鄉野的寜靜和...
評分我得坦白,我沒讀懂這本書,雖然每一個字都認識。我也毫不懷疑奈保爾在寫這篇自傳(雖然書店將它歸到小說一類)時的真誠,他一點也沒有像那位寫《XX苦旅》的人一樣弄什麼玄虛,但是我一直想要問一個問題:他抵達到哪兒瞭呢? 也許我應該給那個神情冷峻的老頭發封EMAIL,問問他...
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