A House For Mr Biswas

V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He is the author of thirteen works of fiction, including A Bend in the River, The Mystic Masseur and The Enigma of Arrival, and ten books of non-fiction including An Area of Darkness and Among the Believers. He has won the Booker Prize, the John Lleweiyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the WH Smith award and in 1993 was awarded the first David Cohen British Literature Award. His latest novel, Half A Life, was published in September 2001. Shortly afterwards he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in Wiltshire.

出版者:Everyman

作者:V S Naipaul

页数:564

出版时间:1995-9-21

价格:GBP 12.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781857152135

图书标签:小说V.S.Naipaul英文原版文艺文学kindle

In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his grander in-laws whose house he lives in. Finally finding a house of his own, he triumphs over the smaller minds who would repress him.

读后感

小说写小人物毕司沃斯，在入赘到强势而充满传统惯性的图尔斯大家庭后，个人寻求自尊、身份认同、独立的挣扎历程，以富有戏剧性的笔调将毕司沃斯先生的脆弱与倔强，妻子的尴尬，图尔斯家族不同形态的趋炎附势、自私自利展现得淋漓尽致，以滑稽、戏谑的手法写悲凉与无奈，给阅读...  

1、一个人所居住的房子影响他的安全感和情绪。毕司沃斯先生一直想拥有不被随时赶走的、有尊严地栖息其中的房子，想起《穿心莲》中主人公要买一套属于自己的房子的执念，拥有自己的房子才有安全感；房子的设施、条件还会影响人的情绪，想起卡尔维诺《在说喂之前》中因为地板洒满...  

在阅读这本将近六百页的小说前二百页的时候，我有一种强烈的预感：我将要在这本书的尽头膜拜在一位新的大师的脚下。 他给叙事技术加速，使小说接近事实无缝连接的真实时间流逝状况。他巨细糜遗的回忆力，和对接近于母系氏族的家族历史中貌似团结实则他人即地狱的人际关系的还原...  

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