With this stunning new novel, cast in the form of a postmodern nightmare, Ishiguro tells a powerful story in which he once again exploits a narrator's utter lack of self-knowledge to create a devastating deadpan irony. A celebrated concert pianist identified only as Mr Ryder arrives at an unnamed European (seemingly Germanic) city not only to give a concert but also, it seems, to address the townspeople and help them surmount a communal sense of crisis that stems from the city's inability to nurture a musical artist of outstanding creative talent. Strangely, the economic, social and psychic health of the community depends on its regaining its self-image in the wake of a dreadful past mistake, when the city fathers lionized a musician with the "wrong" artistic values. Ryder intuits this situation gradually, for he is curiously disoriented; he can't really remember what he's supposed to be doing there. In fact, through Ryder's confused perceptions, the reader is immediately plunged into a surrealistic landscape that has the eerie unpredictability, claustrophobic atmosphere and strange time sequences of a dream. Everyone in this town presents a false image to the world. Each person Ryder meets addresses him with fawning obsequiousness and asks him for a small favor which turns out to be an egregious intrusion into his time. Yet Ryder, infused with an inflated sense of mission, feels a need to console them: "People need me. I arrive in a place and find terrible problems, and people are so grateful I've come." Although he initially thinks he's a stranger in the city, it slowly becomes obvious that he's been here before. In fact, he has been the lover of a woman called Sophie whose little boy, Boris, in many ways replays the pivotal events of Ryder's own life. With dream logic, many of Ryder's childhood friends from England turn up in this inhospitable place, and it becomes obvious that most events are replicas of ones that have occurred before or that fulfill Ryder's fears about the future. As in Ishiguro's previous books (The Remains of the Day, etc.), almost every turn of the plot concerns a failure of communication and a stifling of emotional responses. Children are profoundly wounded by their self-absorbed and insensitive parents; lovers alienate each other across an emotional abyss. The culture-obsessed inhabitants of the city don't recognize true talent when it appears; they disapprove of creativity when it doesn't fit their expectations. Sustaining the nightmarish atmosphere of this tale?its tone alternately sinister and farcical?for more than 500 pages is a tricky business, especially since all the characters express themselves in long, dense monologues. Yet, so adroit is Ishiguro in maintaining suspense that one is as ensnared in the nightmare as is Ryder. The story seems to be a journey through life: its purpose never entirely clear, its events capricious and inexplicable, its destination undoubtedly "the vast, dark, empty space" of the soul's extinction. 75,000 first printing; BOMC and QPB selections.
婚姻劝退指南与远方的诱惑 虽然说ryder好像有遗忘症,拖延症和躁狂症,但是这些事情全部都指向现实偏离预定计划滑向不受控的未知方向导致的压力。全文中空间和时间的错乱,一整章内容的叙述结束不过只过去几分钟,穿过一扇门就能回到来时驾车许久的旅馆,使之具有梦境的体感。...
評分婚姻劝退指南与远方的诱惑 虽然说ryder好像有遗忘症,拖延症和躁狂症,但是这些事情全部都指向现实偏离预定计划滑向不受控的未知方向导致的压力。全文中空间和时间的错乱,一整章内容的叙述结束不过只过去几分钟,穿过一扇门就能回到来时驾车许久的旅馆,使之具有梦境的体感。...
評分婚姻劝退指南与远方的诱惑 虽然说ryder好像有遗忘症,拖延症和躁狂症,但是这些事情全部都指向现实偏离预定计划滑向不受控的未知方向导致的压力。全文中空间和时间的错乱,一整章内容的叙述结束不过只过去几分钟,穿过一扇门就能回到来时驾车许久的旅馆,使之具有梦境的体感。...
評分婚姻劝退指南与远方的诱惑 虽然说ryder好像有遗忘症,拖延症和躁狂症,但是这些事情全部都指向现实偏离预定计划滑向不受控的未知方向导致的压力。全文中空间和时间的错乱,一整章内容的叙述结束不过只过去几分钟,穿过一扇门就能回到来时驾车许久的旅馆,使之具有梦境的体感。...
評分婚姻劝退指南与远方的诱惑 虽然说ryder好像有遗忘症,拖延症和躁狂症,但是这些事情全部都指向现实偏离预定计划滑向不受控的未知方向导致的压力。全文中空间和时间的错乱,一整章内容的叙述结束不过只过去几分钟,穿过一扇门就能回到来时驾车许久的旅馆,使之具有梦境的体感。...
感覺“我”生活在真空中,所經曆的好像一場幻象。另外,“我”顯然不是一個閤格的鋼琴傢:到小城這些天居然隻練瞭一次琴,還不斷被瑣事叨擾,都不知道自己該乾嘛瞭。風格還是典型的石黑一雄,每個人都磨磨唧唧的。本來以為到末尾會揭曉什麼謎底(像Never let me go和A pale view of hills一樣),結果卻虎頭蛇尾地結束瞭,留下一個類似The remains of the day那種莫名充滿希望的開放式結局。
评分mr ryder大概同時有遺忘癥,拖延癥和躁狂癥等多種現代疾病。注意力不集中,並且有一點路癡。
评分could sb please kindly tell me what the fuck this is all about?
评分前1/3很好漸入夢境,後麵太過瑣碎,讀完有宿醉感
评分真的讀的纍死瞭,中間插播瞭兩本太宰治的書,經曆瞭一次旅行和無數次加班,每天忙的飛起,就這樣斷斷續續,曆時兩個月,終於讀完瞭。 其實前半部分的很多細節已經記不清瞭,實在不是很引人入勝的故事。剛開始,隻覺故事裏的人都超級囉嗦,後來漸漸開始意識到,也許,隻有孤獨的人纔會如此囉嗦吧…喋喋不休,從不放棄任何傾訴的機會…這本小說裏的人都是話嘮…小鎮看似熱鬧繁華,實則每一個人都覺得孤獨,都有無法示人的難言的隱痛… 而最終,故事中的人物,誰都沒能得到圓滿的結局。那些隱痛,注定得不到慰籍… 也許,作者想錶達的是,人,注定是孤獨的??最終,我們無法在任何人身上得到慰籍,隻能學會自己麵對??? 我也不確定,隻覺得好纍啊啊啊啊啊… 這本書應該不會再讀第二遍瞭。 嗯,就這樣吧。
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