V.S.奈保尔(1932年-),英国移民作家。出生于西印度群岛特立尼达的一个印度家庭。奈保尔在西方享有盛誉,他和拉什迪、石黑一雄并称“英国移民文学三雄”。其作品曾获毛姆奖、布克奖等不少重要文学奖、布克奖等不少重要文学奖,2001年荣获诺贝尔文学奖,这表明他“当代经典作家”地位的确立。重要作品有《米格尔街》、《河湾》、《抵达之谜》等。作品主要写印度、非洲、加勒比地区人的生存状况,表现了后殖民时代的世态人心。奈保尔是继康拉德之后又一位伟大的编年史作家。
In 1950, after winning a scholarship from the government of Trinidad, V. S. Naipaul, aged seventeen, left home for the first time. Following a two-week journey by steamer, he arrived in Oxford, England, a world utterly removed from the one he had longed to escape and to which he would never really return. This extraordinary collection of letters gives us, as nothing published previously has, an intimate view of Naipaul's formative years.
It is a story of family members oceans apart, clinging to one another against the sadness of dislocation and isolation: The young Naipaul, desperate not for a degree but to become a writer and make his way in the world. His beloved sister Kamla, anxious and bewildered, away at school in India. And his melancholy but loving father, whose own broken dream of succeeding as a writer would be realized in the singular achievement of his son.
With the satisfactions of a novel, Between Father and Son portrays a deeply affecting family drama, even as it bears witness to the flowering of one of the great literary geniuses of the century.
这本书是家书类书籍中不太寻常的一类,我也是从不同的角度来阅读这部家书。对比《傅雷家书》,《梁启超家书》(我仅读过的两本)来看,也许这就是不同文化的差异。傅雷和梁启超两位大家都是从家长的角度,以一个“经验丰富”的长辈的口气,或严肃或和蔼,来把自己希望的情感和...
评分这本书是家书类书籍中不太寻常的一类,我也是从不同的角度来阅读这部家书。对比《傅雷家书》,《梁启超家书》(我仅读过的两本)来看,也许这就是不同文化的差异。傅雷和梁启超两位大家都是从家长的角度,以一个“经验丰富”的长辈的口气,或严肃或和蔼,来把自己希望的情感和...
评分一般。除了有史料价值。奈保尔生活中多操蛋不用这本书也能知道。很奇怪奈保尔的弟弟也干了作家,不知道是不是他爸的影响。 奈保尔可算20世纪现实主义大师,得奖前在中国不红跟这个恐怕也有关系,他的小说基本看不出想象力,但不等于不打动人。 印度人一向近鬼神,但奈保尔在...
评分这本书是家书类书籍中不太寻常的一类,我也是从不同的角度来阅读这部家书。对比《傅雷家书》,《梁启超家书》(我仅读过的两本)来看,也许这就是不同文化的差异。傅雷和梁启超两位大家都是从家长的角度,以一个“经验丰富”的长辈的口气,或严肃或和蔼,来把自己希望的情感和...
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