弗兰克克默德是剑桥大学教授兼任哥伦比亚、哈佛等美国大学的客座教授。他被誉为本世纪最博学的文学批评家之一。由于他的学术涉猎面广,有人认为“批评家”的头衔比“文学批评家”更适合于他。
Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished and beloved critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Prompted by the approach of the millennium, he revisits the book which brings his highly concentrated insights to bear on some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. Examining the works of writers from Plato to William Burroughs, Kermode shows how they have persistently imposed their "fictions" upon the face of eternity and how these have reflected the apocalyptic spirit. Kermode then discusses literature at a time when new fictive explanations, as used by Spenser and Shakespeare, were being devised to fit a world of uncertain beginning and end. He goes on to deal perceptively with modern literature - with "traditionalists" such as Yeats, Eliot, and Joyce, as well as contemporary "schismatics," the French "new novelists," and such seminal figures as Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett. Whether weighing the difference between modern and earlier modes of apocalyptic thought, considering the degeneration of fiction into myth, or commenting on the vogue of the Absurd, Kermode is distinctly lucid, persuasive, witty, and prodigal of ideas.
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此书读完不易,涉及中世纪时间哲学的部分比较吃力,拉丁文与法语太不给力。
评分a true classic in every sense.
评分用虚构来抵抗无常。
评分a true classic in every sense.
评分makes me end where I begun
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