诺曼·梅勒(Norman Mailer),美国最具争议的犹太裔作家。1923年出生于美国新泽西州。1939进入哈佛大学学习航空工程,但却对文学创作产生兴趣,大学二年级就发表了第一篇短篇小说《世界上最伟大的事》。1944年至1946年在太平洋地区服役。1948在巴黎写出了成名作《裸者与死者》。1955年与人合作创办了主要在纽约发行的报纸《村声》。1969年竞选纽约市长失利。《夜幕下的大军》(1968年)获普利策奖和美国国家图书奖。《刽子手之歌》(1979年)再获普利策奖。2005年获得美国国家图书基金会的美国文学杰出贡献奖。2007年1月出版了其最后一部小说《林中城堡》。2007年11月10日去世。美国著名作家琼·迪迪恩在得知诺曼去世之后赞扬诺曼是“美国伟大的良心”,法国总统萨科齐则表示这是“美国文学巨人的陨落”。
梅勒是当代美国文坛的一位风格独特的作家,写作风格多变,不少作品剖析了美国社会中的病态现象,在文体上也敢于作大胆的探索。作品中主要人物多为一些硬汉式人物,有很强的自我意识。梅勒也被美国文学界称为“海明威第二”。
发表于2024-11-25
The Castle in the Forest 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
一般而言,每个作家都是根据有限的经历和情感来写作。但是作家写作的目的却不是为了保存这种有限的私人体验,他必须具备敏锐的观察力,必须借助移情和直觉的非凡力量。用亨利•詹姆斯的话说,他必须成为一个时刻准备着深入他人生命的人,在高度私人化的体验和众多他者的体验...
评分一部荒诞的小说。 我很想说,《林中城堡》很恶俗,低趣味,故事十分的荒诞,甚至有点下流,因为它的主题是乱伦。一点也不用怀疑,作者写它的时候拟定的主题估计就是“乱伦”。 是以希特勒为作品背景吗?小说家可以任意发挥,所以历史记录不确定的事实一点也不重要,诺曼·...
评分For me this was a very difficult book to read. My punchline is that "The Castle In The Forest" isn't worth the difficulty. Mailer is not as insightful as C.S. Lewis when it comes to matters of good and evil--mostly just garrulous and meandering.
评分诺曼·梅勒在《为我自己做广告》中写道:“我希望尝试对谋杀、自杀、乱伦、纵欲、极度的快感以及时光等方面的奥秘作深入的探讨。”梅勒这略显重口味的宏愿,在《林中城堡》的创作中,得以部分实现。这些邪恶的元素像旷野飘荡的鬼火,在《林中城堡》一书中随处忽闪。 ...
评分For me this was a very difficult book to read. My punchline is that "The Castle In The Forest" isn't worth the difficulty. Mailer is not as insightful as C.S. Lewis when it comes to matters of good and evil--mostly just garrulous and meandering.
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No career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe, from Henry Miller and Mohammad Ali to Jesus Christ. Now, in The Castle in the Forest, his first major work of fiction in more than a decade, Mailer offers what may be his consummate literary endeavor: He has set out to explore the evil of Adolf Hitler.
The narrator, a mysterious SS man who is later revealed to be an exceptional presence, gives us young Adolf from birth, as well as Hitler’s father and mother, his sisters and brothers, and the intimate details of his childhood and adolescence.
A tapestry of unforgettable characters, The Castle in the Forest delivers its playful twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all. At its core is a hypothesis that propels this novel and makes it a work of stunning originality. Now, on the eve of his eighty-fourth birthday, Norman Mailer may well be saying more than he ever has before.
From the Hardcover edition.
The Castle in the Forest 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书