V.S. Naipaul undertook this Caribbean journey at the invitation, in 1960, of Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, the author's birthplace. At that time, the plantation colonies of the region were formed, culturally, in the image of the metropolis. Racial and political assertion had yet to catch up with them in varying ways. In Trinidad, African racialism found itself at odds with old colonial mimicry; forty years on, the racial issue will not be between black and white, but between black and Asian. Guyana was Marxist, but with the same racial divisions: forty years on, the country will be so ruined that a newspaper will be regarded almost as a luxury item. In Surinam, a movement was afoot to replace the Dutch language with a pidgin English called talkie-talkie: forty years on, that racial sentiment will have led to military dictatorship and an exodus of the locals to Holland. Whereas Martinique, defying geography, saw itself as France. And, in Jamaica, such rejectionism took the form of Rastafarianism which, absurdly, turns out to have been the invention of Italian black propaganda during the Abyssinian War of the 1930s. The Middle Passage catches this poor topsy-turvy world at a critical moment: a world by turns sad, earnest and hilarious indeed, a perfect subject for the understanding and comedy of this great writer.
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,50年代進入牛津大學攻讀英國文學,畢業後開始寫作。著有《米格爾街》、《畢司沃斯先生的房子》、《自由國度》、《遊擊隊員》、《大河灣》、“印度三部麯”、《非洲的假麵劇》等。2001年,獲諾貝爾文學奬。
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評分读的第一本奈保尔是《我们的普世文明》,当时还不知道奈保尔有诺贝尔奖,这本书是一本杂文集,当时读的时候就觉得作者有些洞见很不错,自己深有同感又写不出的样子。当然,书太厚,一直也没读完。 《重访加勒比》这本书是加勒比这个字眼吸引了我,我总是对离自己...
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