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No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives.
In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people--Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys, and Linda, a supercilious “compound wife” [117]-- are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital [111]. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin’s Uganda. [111-12, 120, 130-1, 150, 178, 220-40] And the farther Naipaul’s protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims. Alongside this Conradian tour de force are four incisive portraits of men seeking liberation far from home. By turns funny and terrifying, sorrowful and unsparing, In A Free State is Naipaul at his best.
V.S.奈保尔(V.S.Naipaul):
英国著名作家。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,著有《米格尔街》、《斯通与骑士伙伴》、《自由国度》、《河湾》、“印度三部曲”、《非洲的假面剧》等。2001年,荣获诺贝尔文学奖。
We all come out of the same pot, but some people move ahead and some people get left behind. Some people get left behind so far they don't know and they stop caring.
评分有点失望。两个短篇还不错,主打的短长篇令人厌烦,通篇没话找话的大段景物描写,没看出起到什么必不可少的作用。其实整本书就是在讲cultural displacement,无论“从低向高”追求更好的生活,还是“从高到低”寻求自由,最终都事与愿违无所适从。
评分We all come out of the same pot, but some people move ahead and some people get left behind. Some people get left behind so far they don't know and they stop caring.
评分我看短评里大家偏爱的前两个短篇时,心里只有WHAT THE ACTUAL FXXK 同名中篇才能说得上是有质感。个人生活经历大概是奈保尔创作的最重要源泉,他写特立尼达的小城故事,清甜的热带气息让人动容;写白人去南非寻找自由,能完美与人物共情;写印度人的苦难,让人觉得他歧视自己的种族。
评分这里的人没有好坏之分,每个人生来就远离了故乡,手里握的只有绝望。
康德说:所谓自由,不是随心所欲,而是自我主宰。可谁又曾真正拥有过自己,能够主宰自我呢? 自由,就是一片丛林,你我早已在追逐自由国度中迷失了方向。 v.s.奈保尔: 我曾经在镜中端详自己, 决定做个自由人, 然而现在, 自由使我认识到, 我有一张脸,一副躯体; 我必须在...
评分看完《米格尔街》很佩服奈保尔,怎么写的这么活灵活现的,这些人啊栩栩如生。 所以又拿了 自由国度回来。图书馆里奈保尔的书很多,有一排。随手拿的,不算厚。 一页页翻,不知道前后有连接没?看完楔子一集两个短篇。还是觉得这是天才笔力,简单的就写出了那些底层人的...
评分康德说:所谓自由,不是随心所欲,而是自我主宰。可谁又曾真正拥有过自己,能够主宰自我呢? 自由,就是一片丛林,你我早已在追逐自由国度中迷失了方向。 v.s.奈保尔: 我曾经在镜中端详自己, 决定做个自由人, 然而现在, 自由使我认识到, 我有一张脸,一副躯体; 我必须在...
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