Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. his close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality, philosophy and history, loves and friends, old and new, and vaudeville routines from the remote past. The mood turns more somber once they have returned to the Midwest and Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS and Chick himself nearly dies. Deeply insightful and always moving, Saul Bellow's new novel is a journey through love and memory. It is brave, dark, and bleakly funny: an elegy to friendship and to lives well (or badly) lived.
Author Info:
Saul Bellow
06/10/1915-04/05/2005
在巨大的头脑里,作者竟然陪同着我们一起拜访了他的往昔回忆.那么真切,历历再目,三维电影也不外如是. 又仿佛大家共同琢饮着美酒,一杯一杯,又一杯. 再来,是天空里的华尔兹,狐步,恰恰. 谢幕时分,仿佛是不尽的微笑,感谢,感谢. 巨大的能量体,燃烧,是美国,是欧洲,是拉维尔斯坦,是...
评分“1992年6月18日,读索尔-贝娄读得索然无味。只记得里面写一个女人,头发分成两绺像一扇窗的两片帘子。写诗人:他既不能做子宫切除术,也不能把飞船送出月球。” ———————— 不知道那时看的是贝娄的哪本书了,《洪堡的礼物》?还是《赫索格》? 这本《拉椎尔斯坦》买来...
评分Oct 9, 2005 12:42 AM from selbsterhaltung 一批小资产阶级的典型们,为隐藏的畏惧所支配,每个人都有一座虚荣的圣坛,图谋说服别人认可他心目中自己的形象;毫无趣味的,算计的个性(这个术语要比 “灵魂”好——你能与个性打交道,然而思考这些个别的灵魂,却是你...
评分索尔•贝娄有句名言,叫“在我离开之前,清算我全部的账目”。或许对于这位出生并成长在美国文化环境(他生于加拿大,9岁时随父母在芝加哥定居)之中的犹太裔知识分子作家,在目睹了20世纪的狂热与极端之后,是十分希望不留亏欠,也不被亏欠地离开这个世界的。但索尔•贝...
评分Oct 9, 2005 12:42 AM from selbsterhaltung 一批小资产阶级的典型们,为隐藏的畏惧所支配,每个人都有一座虚荣的圣坛,图谋说服别人认可他心目中自己的形象;毫无趣味的,算计的个性(这个术语要比 “灵魂”好——你能与个性打交道,然而思考这些个别的灵魂,却是你...
the life and death of a Jewish scholar
评分结尾有点小失望 "every personal discussion turned finally into good, clean, nihilistic fun." She had been one of Ravelstein's learned groupies. She was good at Greek. To study with R you had to read your Xenophon, Thucydides, and Plato in Greek.
评分Now in retrospect, this book seems to the beginning of my recently-ended obsession.
评分Now in retrospect, this book seems to the beginning of my recently-ended obsession.
评分Now in retrospect, this book seems to the beginning of my recently-ended obsession.
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