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.
写作是一件极费精力之事,没有哪一类艺术家像作家一样伏在书桌上度过那么绵长的日夜。一种依靠脑力与勤奋才能完成的创作,将随着年岁遭遇衰退的困境。这是为何作家的巅峰之作往往出自四五十岁壮年之际,在步入花甲之年后开始急剧衰退。这同样解释了作为作家的村上春树需要每日...
評分/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...
評分“实在很难想象像拉维尔斯坦这样的人已经与世长辞了。” 索尔贝娄发出的感叹。“因为在一片鸟儿的聒噪声中,听不见他的话。”现代的民主社会恰如这聒噪的丛林,那些卑下的鸟儿却在不停地发出噪音,将高贵灵魂的声音都淹没了。拉维尔斯坦不再了,而聒噪的鸟儿们却仍在继续。 “...
評分《拉维尔斯坦》通过记录拉维尔斯坦这位频临死亡的哲学教授的最后岁月,梳理了人物的鲜明个性和思想特征。索尔贝娄深入生活的实质,他善于把学术思想委婉植入人物谈话和流水账般的叙述中,时而无收揽的铺排,时而严谨论调,机灵调侃,插诨打科,零碎又自成体系。如果细致梳理美...
評分翻口毛边,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。
the life and death of a Jewish scholar
评分結尾有點小失望 "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.
评分結尾有點小失望 "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
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