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.奈保爾(V.S.Naipaul):
英國著名作傢。1932年生於特立尼達島上一個印度移民傢庭,1950年進入牛津大學攻讀英國文學,畢業後遷居倫敦。
50年代開始寫作,著有《米格爾街》、《斯通與騎士夥伴》、《自由國度》、《河灣》、“印度三部麯”、《非洲的假麵劇》等。2001年,榮獲諾貝爾文學奬。
《自由国度》﹝英﹞V.S.奈保尔 我是在近来的某一个时段,突然之间频繁接触到“奈保尔”、《灵异推拿师》、《黑暗之地》等等的字眼,加上印度、伊朗、阿富汗等中东的故事,对我具有魔力般的吸引力。作者奈保尔是英籍印度裔作家,他18岁才到牛津大学求学,获得文学学士后毕定居英...
評分《自由国度》解读 《自由国度》是一本短篇小说集,1971 年英国获得了布克奖。书中包含两个日记摘要和三个短篇小说。比较起来,这三篇小说中的主人公们在地理和文化上都经历了移位,他们在异国遇到了文化身份的危机,失去了归属感。 第一个故事:桑托什是一个印度仆人,跟着他...
評分读罢《孤独的人》,去阳光房冲咖啡休息眼睛,窗外夜色溶溶,远处高楼闪着荧蓝的霓虹,城市在进入睡眠前高调着喧闹,越过丛丛被黑暗浸溶色泽深紫的树冠,能听见马路上车来车往的呼啸。 适才的阅读仍给我快意的享受。V S 奈保尔,自从他以诺贝尔获奖作家的身份进入我的书单后,...
更喜歡前麵的幾個短篇,同名的短篇還沒有讀完
评分更喜歡前麵的幾個短篇,同名的短篇還沒有讀完
评分最後一篇如同嚼蠟。但前麵幾篇真的短小深刻。
评分有點失望。兩個短篇還不錯,主打的短長篇令人厭煩,通篇沒話找話的大段景物描寫,沒看齣起到什麼必不可少的作用。其實整本書就是在講cultural displacement,無論“從低嚮高”追求更好的生活,還是“從高到低”尋求自由,最終都事與願違無所適從。
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.
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