Retired Professor of Linguistics Desmond Bates is going deaf. It's a bother for his wife who has an enviably successful new career and is too busy to be endlessly repeating herself. Roles are reversed with his aging father, who resents his son's attempts to help him. And then there's Alex, a student whom Desmond has agreed to help after a typical misunderstanding at a party. But her increasingly bizarre requests cannot all be blamed on his defective hearing. So much for growing old gracefully...
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戴維•洛奇是一位不走尋常路的作傢,即使在這部小說開篇之前的獻詞中,他也背離常規,心思細密、情真意切地將此書獻給那些多年來一直孜孜不倦地將他的作品翻譯成各種語言的譯者,而對早已習慣為人作嫁、苦樂自知的譯者而言,這無疑是一種少有的榮幸。 戴維•洛奇齣生於193...
評分 評分 評分這是我給戴維·洛奇(David Lodge) 2008年的小說Deaf Sentence 提議的書名翻譯。本來兩個英文詞夠簡單的,可是“sentence”是個可數名詞,既不在前麵加個“a”,又不是復數形式,弄啥玄虛啊?是要讀者聯想到“death sentence”?此公喜歡玩文字遊戲,像現實生活中的齣版社Mi...
圖書標籤: DavidLodge 英國文學 英國 fiction 趣味 小說 Penguin 外國文學
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評分"Deafness is comic and death is tragic,because final,inevitable,and inscrutable."
評分very amusing!
評分愉快
評分關於衰老與死亡。這是我讀過David Lodge最不那麼好笑的書,到末尾時都要流淚瞭。
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