萨克雷(1811-1863),十九世纪英国著名小说家,《名利场》是他的代表作。
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"Vanity Fair", Thackeray's panoramic, satirical saga of corruption at all levels of English society, was published in 1847 but set during the Napoleonic Wars. It chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family. Becky's fluctuating fortunes eventually bring her to an affair with Amelia's dissolute husband; when he is killed at Waterloo, Amelia and her child are left penniless, while Becky and her husband Rawdon Crawley rise in the world, managing to lead a high life in London solely on the basis of their shrewdness.(The chapter entitled "How to Live on Nothing" is a classic.) Thackeray's subtitle, "A Novel Without a Hero," is understating the case; his view of humanity in this novel is distinctly bleak and deliberately antiheroic. Critics of the time misunderstood the book, decrying it as (among other things) vicious, vile, and odious. But "Vanity Fair" has endured as one of the great comic novels of all time, and a landmark in the history of realism in fiction.
I like the name of the novel Vanity Fair and the subtitle A Novel without a Hero. That’s the reason why I choose to read this one. In some ways, I feel like Thackeray was trying to encompass his century as a whole, not just the very specific...
评分我曾经听人用"尖酸刻薄的英国老太婆"形容一位过分挑剔的朋友,才知道英国老太婆还有这样的特长。我只知道英国的老头子也是很擅长挑剔人的:热爱反讽的小说家挑剔起他们的人物来,未必会输给街边聒噪的老太婆。 反讽有机智的好处,可机智要作为点缀才好。萨克雷的机智太多太热...
评分一本好书的标准在我这里就是放诸四海皆准:这故事剥去表面浮华,放在任何时代、任何国度都是一个活生生的故事——这就是本好书。 《名利场》便如此:任何时候、任何国家都有贫富分化,没人能一辈子一帆风顺,贫家小户的姑娘想要出人头地,中产阶级想要结识真正的...
评分李嘉欣说,一开始的时候她并不知道她漂亮。 我想,这句话证明她是聪明而清醒的。 时装杂志采访她,问到可有看过亦舒写的印度墨,她答,不曾,我不看chick -lit(少女读物)。 亦舒谈起她,说法却是:那时她对我说,倪匡他不理解,我得生存下去啊。 ...
评分I like the name of the novel Vanity Fair and the subtitle A Novel without a Hero. That’s the reason why I choose to read this one. In some ways, I feel like Thackeray was trying to encompass his century as a whole, not just the very specific...
人性的确如此,既轻信又爱怀疑
评分我想写写“关于女性的社会角色”这个话题
评分英文原版被我读了一半之后很不厚道地故意留在家里了……T_T
评分美丽的语言 吸引人的情节 好想多看几本这样的小说啊
评分买的是上外出版社版本,可惜没找到。 很厚很厚的书,很佩服自己居然就这么一天一天把书读完了,再唏嘘一下,生活不过就是一个舞台,一个vanity fair. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely its players.
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