No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you’re not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college–as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete’s critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated.
The agency of Kepesh’s undoing is Consuela Castillo, the decorous and humblingly beautiful 24-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles. When he becomes involved with her, Kepesh finds himself dragged–helplessly, bitterly, furiously–into the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss. In chronicling this descent, Philip Roth performs a breathtaking set of variations on the themes of eros and mortality, license and repression, selfishness and sacrifice. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.
菲利普・羅斯(Philip Roth),1933年齣生在美國新澤西州的紐瓦剋市,被認為是當代最傑齣的美國猶太裔作傢之一。羅斯以短篇小說《再見,哥倫布》崛起,在過去的十年間,他已贏得美國多個主要文學奬項,1998年更是憑藉《美國田園詩》一舉獲得美國普利策文學奬,電影《人性汙點》即由他2000年齣版的同名暢銷小說改編,他也是近年來獲諾貝爾文學奬呼聲頗高的作傢之一。
身体所包含的人生故事和头脑一样多。 ——埃德纳·奥勃兰恩 我八年前就认识她了。她那会儿听我的课。我不再教全日制班了,准确地说是不再上文学课了——多年来就教这一个班,是个高年级的文学批评大型研讨班,名为 “实用批评”。我吸引了不少女生。原因有二。一是因为这门课程很...
評分苏轼《与王庠》写道:“书富如入海,百货皆有之,人之精力,不能兼收尽取,但得其所欲求者。” 读菲利普•罗斯《垂死的肉身》,找到一个很好的比喻:“她就像新孵出的雏鸟,圆圆的前额上还粘着蛋壳碎片也不奇怪。”除了这个比喻之外,值得“一意求之”的是教授大卫•凯...
評分忘记什么时候保存这个书单的 但elegy绝对是我最爱的电影之一 看前面几页的时候就开始与电影elegy对比 之后看到30多页才想到上google搜索一下2者关系 因为简直如出一辙 之后果真是根据此书改编而拍的。。看来我对老男人的印象从很早就注定了 不是太了解作者背景 但推荐此书 ...
評分这是一本关于生与死的寓言,表面上Philip Roth所写的是一个退休老教授和一个叫康秀拉的女学生之间的爱情与情欲的故事,正如它的中译本扉页上所写的,他迷恋她的身体,无法自拔,渐渐地,对年龄 差距的恐惧、对青春的妒忌抽走了他的自信,他们结束了这段痛苦的感情。然而,这段...
評分很精彩,可以感受到很多。关于以下问题,什么是永恒不变的爱,什么是地老天荒的情感。与其说亘古不变或地老天荒,那些都只是梦想与憧憬,唯有敢于付出真情才会到爱情永在。其实美丽的爱情如同所有美丽的事物,珍惜它,爱护它,才有机会伴随它。 爱情可以没有年龄的差距,...
這一本的問題還是,verbiage. He was too shrewd to be good. He's good when he's crude.
评分這一本的問題還是,verbiage. He was too shrewd to be good. He's good when he's crude.
评分這一本的問題還是,verbiage. He was too shrewd to be good. He's good when he's crude.
评分這一本的問題還是,verbiage. He was too shrewd to be good. He's good when he's crude.
评分這一本的問題還是,verbiage. He was too shrewd to be good. He's good when he's crude.
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