V.S.奈保爾(1932—2018 )
英國著名作傢。1932年生於特立尼達島上一個印度移民傢庭,1950年進入牛津大學攻讀英國文學,畢業後遷居倫敦。
50年代開始寫作,著有《米格爾街》、《斯通先生與騎士夥伴》、《自由國度》、《大河灣》、“印度三部麯”、《非洲的假麵劇》等。20 01年榮獲諾貝爾文學奬。
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 The Europeans have withdrawn or been forced to withdraw and the scene is one of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation, poverty and a lack of preparation for the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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河灣
这个世界,时间挑选着历史,历史挑选着政治,政治挑选着生活,生活挑选着我们。不,这甚至不是一种挑拣,世界只是在不经意间成就它所毁灭的,毁灭它所成就的。而有时,我们会错误地反过来相信这点,相信未来的辉煌,相信文明的胜利。这相信背后,藏有我们看不到的、夕阳余晖般...
評分《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、...
評分依然选取了移民视角,展现一地一国的变迁,主人公一出场,就面临一个身份的问题——家族早早移民于此,丢失历史,却又拘泥于传统,来得太久以至于无路可退,与当地人无法融合,在动荡乱世中无法保护自己。无法自处,这个问题不仅在印度裔身上产生,也在早已失去征服者姿态的阿...
評分幸运能读到奈保尔这本重要的书,何况是个好译本。读后你似乎不会怀疑,作者就是一个货真价实的新非洲人,新非洲城镇居民生活的窗户缝儿里,就那么透出光来。毕竟,只有奈保尔什么都能、愿、敢写。不過坦率地說,後半部裏浮現出的不安和焦躁有點不匹配大師的穩穩手筆。即便只是...
評分在台湾的几天读完了奈保尔的大河湾 作为一个纯理科生对这种文学类作品读的比较少,由于作者初始对于各人物的背景交待和状态都比较模糊不清导致看前两章的时候经常会有一种很混乱的感觉。 小说以主人公萨林姆为了远离自身的虚无而深入非洲腹地在大河所处的一个破旧小镇开始新的...
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