Firmin

萨姆·萨维奇,美国诗人和小说家，南加利福尼亚土著人，曾在耶鲁大学任教，做过自行车修理工、木匠、鱼贩、印刷工人，著有《书虫小鼠》、《哭泣的树獭》、《玻璃》等。

出版者:Delta

作者:Sam Savage

页数:176

出版时间:2008-12-30

价格:USD 14.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780385342650

图书标签:小说原版小说Fiction

In the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a shredded copy Finnegans Wake, nurtured on a diet of Zane Grey, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and Jane Eyre (which tastes a lot like lettuce). While his twelve siblings gnaw these books obliviously, for Firmin the words, thoughts, deeds, and hopes—all the literature he consumes—soon consume him. Emboldened by reading, intoxicated by curiosity, foraging for food, Firmin ventures out of his bookstore sanctuary, carrying with him all the yearnings and failings of humanity itself. It’s a lot to ask of a rat—especially when his home is on the verge of annihilation.

A novel that is by turns hilarious, tragic, and hopeful, Firmin is a masterpiece of literary imagination. For here, a tender soul, a vagabond and philosopher, struggles with mortality and meaning—in a tale for anyone who has ever feasted on a book…and then had to turn the final page.

读后感

P24 他们不只是来买本书，不是留下钱就匆匆离去；他们还要闲逛一会。他们管这叫“随便看看”，我倒觉得更像是挖掘或采矿，只差没带铲子进来了。他们赤手空拳地采掘宝藏，找到了便夹在胳肢窝下。若是他们能够从一堆杂书里拣出“金块”，那可比走进店里直接买走书要高兴的多。如...  

看简介，以为是童话、是喜剧。看完方知，是波士顿强拆的全程记录，是用书虫小鼠的一辈子来影射了人的一生。书的结尾，让人潸然泪下：“但我失去了，以至沦落到这般田地，一切都离我而去。我在孤单中品尝孤独------老了，老了。真伤感。老了。真伤感，乏得很。”  

弗明的鼠类妈妈在分娩前，把人类世界的一本大书拖来撕碎做成鼠窝。这是妈妈能找到的最大的一本书了，也是最难懂的——小鼠弗明就落草在《芬尼根守灵》所撕成的的碎屑中。他以这种方式打开的一生，注定陷落在最杰出人类所熔炼的文学森林中。他爱那些人——那些已死去的人，他们...  

《书虫小鼠》是一本很有意思的书。讲的是一只寄居在书店地下室的怯弱小老鼠因为自小啃食书本，竟能识字看书，从而窥探并深刻理解人类世界。 在街上觅食，他看到危险和脏乱。正在拆除过程中的街区，仿如世界末日来临，一如五六十年代美国社会的混乱不安。就算是相对安全的电影...