The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century. Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy, and middle-class Chinese society in the Republican era. Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (à la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in hand, returns home to Shanghai. On the French liner home, he meets two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao. Qian writes, "With Miss Pao it wasn't a matter of heart or soul. She hadn't any change of heart, since she didn't have a heart." In a sort of painful comedy, Fang obtains a teaching post at a newly established university where the effete pseudo-intellectuals he encounters in academia become the butt of Qian's merciless satire. Soon Fang is trapped into a marriage of Nabokovian proportions of distress and absurdity. Recalling Fielding's Tom Jones in its farcical litany of misadventures and Flaubert's "style indirect libre," Fortress Besieged is its own unique feast of delights. The translators Jeanne Kelly and Nathan K. Mao have breathed life into the English translation.
钱钟书(1910-1998),字哲良,默存,号槐聚,中国江苏无锡人,中国近代著名作家、 文学研究家。毕业于清华大学外文系,获文学学士,赴上海,到光华大学任教。后考取第三届(1935年)庚子赔款公费留学资格,名列榜首,留学英国牛津大学 埃克塞特学院。大学毕业后任教于多所高校。新中国成立后被评为一级教授。晚年就职于中国社会科学院,任副院长。其夫人杨绛也是著名作家,育有一女钱媛(1937年-1997年)。曾为《毛泽东选集》英文版翻译小组成员。1998年逝世,享年88岁。
钱钟书先生的《围城》是不敢来评的,只记录一些感受罢了。 注:较长,请选择性阅读。 吃葡萄的人 八年前,我上高三,正在为高考没日没夜的做模拟试题。前一天做完的卷子,第二天上课时语文老师会讲其中的一两道试题。某天他讲了一道阅读理解题,题目是:有两种人吃葡萄的人,...
评分看论坛上掐架,说的是鲁迅,王小波,钱钟书,架掐得没个所以然,自然最后又可以被人用仁者见仁智者见智的无聊老话总结过。但是发现有人为鲁迅,王小波反驳,对于钱钟书说的却甚少,许是《围城》很多人看过,但若被人奉上一句不足够伟大,却也让人无话可说,而其他的东西如管锥...
评分一千个读者有一千个哈姆雷特,对于《围城》这样历经数十年洗礼的作品,我觉得可以说,一千个读者有一千五百个《围城》,伴随一代代读者的成长,每个人对《围城》看法也在发生变化,于是每个人对《围城》就有了一个,一个半,两个或是更多的理解,也有了二十岁的《围城》,四十...
评分花了几个晚上终于读完了《围城》,虽比不上杨绛先生“锱铢积累”的读,却也是一字一句读的认真的。读时常会被钱老那具有小资情调的戏谑逗笑,偶尔也会泛起不着边际的感伤,但读到最后一句、最后一字,合上书回味,满嘴却只剩下现实的辛酸与苦涩。 方鸿渐,一个...
评分浅谈《围城》魅力 (2008/12/26/凌) 我分三部分说说。 有一种书,很好看,但是要说它是怎么个好看法,却有些难。 就如同,鸡蛋好吃,但是要我们确切的说一下鸡蛋是个什么味道?恐怕也很难。 但是《围城》毕竟是我很爱的一本书,我爱了多年,甚至会爱一生的一本书,所以,不...
i dun know why i read it.. maybe b/c others told me that's a good work...
评分大概是自己的水平不够,英文版总觉得读得不痛快
评分In a certain age, I did believe that marriage is like a fortress besiedged. I was the one outside, and still had enough curiosity left for marriage, I wanted to go in. Now I have none, and marriage to me, is like a war field constantly in turmoil. I decide to quit all my delusions left. BTW, the translation is as insipid as plain boiled water.
评分i dun know why i read it.. maybe b/c others told me that's a good work...
评分大概是自己的水平不够,英文版总觉得读得不痛快
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