Author Info:
Saul Bellow
06/10/1915-04/05/2005
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.
/黄湘 十年前,在北京一家民营书店,我买下了一本深蓝色封面的《走向封闭的美国精神》,从此记住了艾伦·布鲁姆这个名字。后来我又陆续阅读了他的Shakespeare's Politics(《莎士比亚的政治》)和Love and Friendship(《爱与友谊》),深为这两部作品的广博与细腻而折服。但直...
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“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...
评分翻口毛边,书品近全新,比较可喜。 零四年读的中文译本,就想找原著看看,总算遂愿了。在BELLOW的作品里,这本大概只好算B+——A-的水准。
评分翻口毛边,书品近全新,比较可喜。 零四年读的中文译本,就想找原著看看,总算遂愿了。在BELLOW的作品里,这本大概只好算B+——A-的水准。
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the life and death of a Jewish scholar
评分Now in retrospect, this book seems to the beginning of my recently-ended obsession.
评分the life and death of a Jewish scholar
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