具體描述
The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred.
Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’s life within a displaced community and his fierce ambition at school. He describes how, on scholarship at Oxford, homesickness and depression struck with great force; the ways in which Naipaul’s first wife helped him to cope and their otherwise fraught marriage; and Naipaul’s struggles throughout subsequent uncertainties in England, including his twenty-five-year-long affair.
Naipaul’s extraordinary gift—producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and nonfiction—is most of all born of a forceful, visionary impulse, whose roots French traces with a sympathetic brilliance and devastating insight.
作者簡介
帕特裏剋•弗倫奇，作傢，曆史學傢，1966年生於英格蘭，曾在愛丁堡大學研習英美文學。他齣版有《自由或死亡》（Liberty or Death）、《西藏，西藏》(Tibet,Tibet)等作品。他曾獲得泰晤士報青年作傢奬，英國皇傢學會文學奬，毛姆文學奬等多項大奬。
目錄資訊
讀後感
奈保爾傳記書名裏的“The World is What it is”中文翻譯為“世事如斯”，這個“斯”看起來無所指，孔子的那句“逝者如斯夫”，前麵有“子在川上曰”，所以“斯”說的是“川”，而“世事如斯”的“斯”，初讀，就不知道“斯”究竟所指者何瞭。 看英文，大體明白，世事就是它所...
評分包括我自己在內的許多作傢都欠維迪亞·蘇萊普拉薩德·奈保爾（Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul）的情。他開啓瞭文學的多種可能性，找到瞭新的途徑去觀看、描述世界，特彆是非西方世界。對於他的崇拜者來說，想不去模仿他簡直難上加難。刻意模仿自己尊重的作傢也許是一種真誠的恭...
評分關於書名，譯者周成林先生“在極為精細的翻譯工作中，他認為《世事如斯》這一書名過於文雅，而奈保爾的文字以簡潔平白著稱，因此《世事如此》更切閤傳主的人生及其文字風格。” ——我猜測，編輯選擇“如斯”的原因大概是：“世事”這個詞也文雅。如果譯者想搭配“簡潔平白”...
評分包括我自己在內的許多作傢都欠維迪亞·蘇萊普拉薩德·奈保爾（Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul）的情。他開啓瞭文學的多種可能性，找到瞭新的途徑去觀看、描述世界，特彆是非西方世界。對於他的崇拜者來說，想不去模仿他簡直難上加難。刻意模仿自己尊重的作傢也許是一種真誠的恭...
評分A great biography. For me, the effect of this book is: an idol dies as the writer is born. At least, we come to understand the creative process of the writer and his shameless sacrifice of people around him for the sake of writing.
用戶評價
what a rather unsympathetic character, but such a fascinating book...
评分what a rather unsympathetic character, but such a fascinating book...
评分what a rather unsympathetic character, but such a fascinating book...
评分what a rather unsympathetic character, but such a fascinating book...
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