An Area of Darkness

出版者:Picador

作者:V. S. Naipaul

页数:304

出版时间:2010-9

价格:98.00元

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780330522830

具体描述

THE FIRST BOOK IN V.S. NAIPAUL'S ACCLAIMED INDIAN TRILOGY An Area of Darkness is V.S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. He was twenty-nine years old; he stayed for a year. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. It became for him a land of myths, an area of darkness closing up behind him as he travelled ...The experience was not a pleasant one, but the pain the author suffered was creative rather than numbing, and engendered a masterful work of literature that provides a revelation both of India and of himself: a displaced person who paradoxically possesses a stronger sense of place than almost anyone. 'Brilliant' Observer 'A masterpiece of travel-writing' Paul Theroux 'His narrative skill is spectacular.' The Times

作者简介

V.S.奈保尔（V.S.Naipaul）：

英国当代作家，文化巨匠。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭，1950年进入牛津大学攻读英国文学，毕业后迁居伦敦。

50年代开始写作，作品以小说、游记、文论为主，主要有《毕斯沃斯先生的房子》、《米格尔街》、《自由国度》、《河湾》与“印度三部曲”等。其作品在全球享有盛誉，半个世纪里，将里斯奖、毛姆奖、史密斯奖、布克奖、第一届大卫·柯恩文学奖等收入囊中。1990年，被英国女王封为爵士。2001年，荣获诺贝尔文学奖。

读后感

奈保尔这个名字我真的听了不知道多少次，但一直都不是特别敢读，因为名声太大如雷贯耳，也因为印度这个地方在我心里实在是太大太神秘，不说别的，每年asia week new york上东区几个展印度藏品的画廊就每次在语言上都能震慑到我，从梵文到英文直接就让我懵圈的节奏，觉得这玩意...  

酒店里有wifi，继续写起。 第二次来香港的诺亚方舟。和大家玩了一天游戏，没看书。酒店里几本杂志，翻翻没什么内容。包里带了一本奈保尔的游记，人多也不方便读书。 想来，读书是一件非常私人的事情。人多不适宜，太闹不适宜。公共空间里的私人阅读多少不合时宜。 奈保尔的游记...  

此书的名气很大，没有读过好像有点。。。。。。 可能是翻译的问题，有些章节我有点不明白作者想要表达的观点，有些地方实在是前后表述有矛盾。 作为游记，作者的观察不能不说是仔细与敏锐了，但是我始终不能赞同贯穿全书的，对印度文化和印度人批评的态度。 作者给人一种高...  

很不错的书，我前年就开始看了，这次终于看完了。需要体会。我是把尼泊尔比附着体会的。没有这层比附的话，看起来会有点累，因为作者的身份，和印度这个特殊的观察地点。他的身份，决定了他的既内又外的视角，而且当时是60年代，记住这个时间点也很有意义。比附着今日印度就有...

写了一个读书笔记,但是印度第三部还在看，却不耐烦写了，作者见识是更深入了，可是书本身却变得乏味得多。《幽黯国度》翻译出色，是近年来我看过的文笔精彩，最有个性的翻译，只可惜有些地方用法太俏皮，译者的个性大过了原作。 ***印度，受伤的是文明还是人*** 《幽黯国度》...  

用户评价

The world is illusion,the Hindus say.We talk of despair,but true despair lies too deep for formulation..in a world where illusion could only be a concept and not something felt in the bones,it was slipping away from me.I felt it as something true which I could never adequately express and never seize again.看得我胆战心惊的游记 奈保尔用锋利而讽刺的语气把话说得那么死 不知道后两本会写成怎样

The world is illusion,the Hindus say.We talk of despair,but true despair lies too deep for formulation..in a world where illusion could only be a concept and not something felt in the bones,it was slipping away from me.I felt it as something true which I could never adequately express and never seize again.看得我胆战心惊的游记 奈保尔用锋利而讽刺的语气把话说得那么死 不知道后两本会写成怎样

The world is illusion,the Hindus say.We talk of despair,but true despair lies too deep for formulation..in a world where illusion could only be a concept and not something felt in the bones,it was slipping away from me.I felt it as something true which I could never adequately express and never seize again.看得我胆战心惊的游记 奈保尔用锋利而讽刺的语气把话说得那么死 不知道后两本会写成怎样

The world is illusion,the Hindus say.We talk of despair,but true despair lies too deep for formulation..in a world where illusion could only be a concept and not something felt in the bones,it was slipping away from me.I felt it as something true which I could never adequately express and never seize again.看得我胆战心惊的游记 奈保尔用锋利而讽刺的语气把话说得那么死 不知道后两本会写成怎样

The world is illusion,the Hindus say.We talk of despair,but true despair lies too deep for formulation..in a world where illusion could only be a concept and not something felt in the bones,it was slipping away from me.I felt it as something true which I could never adequately express and never seize again.看得我胆战心惊的游记 奈保尔用锋利而讽刺的语气把话说得那么死 不知道后两本会写成怎样