V.S.奈保尔(1932—2018 )
英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭,1950年进入牛津大学攻读英国文学,毕业后迁居伦敦。
50年代开始写作,著有《米格尔街》、《斯通先生与骑士伙伴》、《自由国度》、《大河湾》、“印度三部曲”、《非洲的假面剧》等。20 01年荣获诺贝尔文学奖。
Brilliant and terrifying' - "Observer". I had to be the man who was doing well and more than well, the man whose drab shop concealed some bigger operation that made millions. I had to be the man who had planned it all, who had come to the destroyed town at the bend in the river because he had foreseen the rich future. 'Salim, the narrator, is a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast of Central Africa. Salim has left the coast to make his way in the interior, there to take on a small trading shop of this and that, sundries, sold to the natives. The place is 'a bend in the river'; it is Africa. The time is post-colonial, the time of Independence. The Europeans have withdrawn or been forced to withdraw and the scene is one of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation, poverty and a lack of preparation for the modern world they have entered, or partially assumed as a sort of decoration. It is a story of historical upheaval and social breakdown. Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force. It is a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant brilliance' - Elizabeth Hardwick. 'Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for underlying social causes, a Tolstoyan spirit' - John Updike.
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河湾
继《米格尔街》之后,奈保尔在《毕司沃斯先生的房子》、《守夜人记事簿》、《模仿者》、《游击队员》等一系列小说中进一步深切地展示了宗主国家下移民者的生存困惑与文化挣扎,从普通民众到智识分子,再到政权人物,所有人最终都无法于流放者的桎梏里突围,无处安放的精神直指...
评分茂密的丛林中,谁才是真正的“非洲人”,还是只是一些无足轻重的人,“在这个世界上没有位置”? 奈保尔提出了问题,他是一个局外人,《大河湾》中对非洲的描述更像来自一个旅行者,就像萨林姆对“大人物”总统的看法,一个遥远地方的形象,只挂在墙壁上。这影响了作品所能达到...
评分摘自《中华读书网》 作者:博览群书 奈保尔不懈追求观察和叙述的新方式,在他为小说作出的墓志铭体现了他一贯的逆向思维。在推出一系列也许用“文学性自传”这样的术语更为贴切的虚构作品(《到达者之谜》,《世道人心》)后,他说,小说作为一种文学样式已经死亡,当代...
评分《河湾》,奈保尔关于后殖民时代非洲的名作。因为奈保尔对后殖民地国家(加勒比海、南美、非洲、南亚等等)的批评,他被认为是保守的“右派”,但是很多时候,奈保尔的批评也未尝没有道理。就以非洲为例,殖民地时代结束几十年了,我们还是一直听到那片大陆传来的战争、饥荒、...
评分Unless we can get them thinking, and give them real ideas instead of just politics and principles, these young men will keep our world in turmoil for the next half century.”
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评分Unless we can get them thinking, and give them real ideas instead of just politics and principles, these young men will keep our world in turmoil for the next half century.”
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