The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire? a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair.
Philip Michael Ondaatje, CC FRSL (born 12 September 1943), is a Sri Lanka-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller Prize, the Booker Prize, and the Prix Médicis étranger. Ondaatje is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, recognizing him as one of Canada's most renowned living authors. Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing The Dainty Monsters, and then in 1970 the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. However, he is more recently recognized for his nationally and internationally successful novel The English Patient (1992), which was adapted into a film in 1996. In 2018, Ondaatje won the Golden Man Booker Prize for The English Patient. In addition to his literary writing, Ondaatje has been an important force in "fostering new Canadian writing" with two decades commitment to Coach House Press (around 1970-90), and his editorial credits on Canadian literary projects like the journal Brick, and the Long Poem Anthology (1979), among others.
二战末期,在意大利郊外的别墅里住着四个人:痛失亲人的护士汉娜、失去双手拇指的小偷卡拉瓦乔、每天如履薄冰的扫雷兵基普,还有因为严重烧焦失去皮肤的英国病人。四个在战争中经历过不同创伤的人,并没有因为远离尘俗过得更为轻松,反而,回忆就像一剂慢性毒药,侵蚀他们千疮...
評分读这英文原版小说好费劲。。。 还在我看了电影之后…… 有人说不想为之写书评、影评,是因为无法企及那份深刻的爱情、那无奈的战争,以及无法企及那沙漠中的苍凉与绝望。
評分看完这本书之前,都不知道翁达杰原来属于小众作家。因为他诗性的写作,在正文叙述中夹杂很多史料,零碎的片段,经典名著引用。需要完全集中的精力和完全放松的身心,才能够有跟上翁达杰的笔耕漫游。 我爱这本小说,因为我一直在猜错。女主角,错。男主角,错。以为的洛丽塔之...
評分先看了电影,如今情节已经模糊,只记得和看《教父》的感觉很像,前面漫长的铺垫让人有些不耐,看着看着,不知在哪个点就沉沦了,如书中所言,被“拽入”那口“记忆之井”,越潜越深,不愿出来。 一两年后再读小说,又是很不同的体验。 小说的语言非常美,想象力四溢的芬芳恰...
評分认识《英国病人》,首先是明格拉的电影。看拉尔夫·费恩斯紧锁的眉头里还含着沙,克里斯汀·斯科特·托马斯故意为之的冷漠。读起原著,我愿意再次投进那个茫茫不可知的圣洁沙漠。 故事发生在二战末期,战地护士汉娜负责照顾一个全身烧焦面目不分、有着英国口音的病人。这名...
Love never die but we die for love
评分剛開始讀的時候,大量的不完整句讓我很不適應,有時候甚至不知主語是誰。但是繼續讀下去,就會發現這種語言帶有詩性之美,就像書中不斷齣現的英國病人所愛的詩一樣。作者塑造得最豐滿的人物是Kip,那些拆彈的細節,他騎著摩托落進水中鑽上來大口呼吸空氣的情景,都讓人有身臨其境的感覺;而英國病人的故事雖然也占瞭不少篇章,即使作者細緻地描寫瞭他在沙漠洞穴中燦爛的壁畫的包圍中為凱瑟琳化妝,我還是覺得這個過去式的故事顯得有些obscure。小說的最後Kip意識到自己多年來都在一塊與自己不相乾的土地上為一群不相乾的人掃雷,在西方世界轟炸瞭他所屬的亞洲時,他與其他三人的矛盾爆發,選擇瞭齣走,這更讓我意識到原來小說的主綫並不是英國病人的不倫戀情。而電影裏的Kip,竟像書中被白種人世界忽視一樣成為配角,簡直令人苦笑。
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评分剛開始讀的時候,大量的不完整句讓我很不適應,有時候甚至不知主語是誰。但是繼續讀下去,就會發現這種語言帶有詩性之美,就像書中不斷齣現的英國病人所愛的詩一樣。作者塑造得最豐滿的人物是Kip,那些拆彈的細節,他騎著摩托落進水中鑽上來大口呼吸空氣的情景,都讓人有身臨其境的感覺;而英國病人的故事雖然也占瞭不少篇章,即使作者細緻地描寫瞭他在沙漠洞穴中燦爛的壁畫的包圍中為凱瑟琳化妝,我還是覺得這個過去式的故事顯得有些obscure。小說的最後Kip意識到自己多年來都在一塊與自己不相乾的土地上為一群不相乾的人掃雷,在西方世界轟炸瞭他所屬的亞洲時,他與其他三人的矛盾爆發,選擇瞭齣走,這更讓我意識到原來小說的主綫並不是英國病人的不倫戀情。而電影裏的Kip,竟像書中被白種人世界忽視一樣成為配角,簡直令人苦笑。
评分因為電影的關係一直以為書應該有900多頁的厚度, 但是比我想象中的簡短精煉很多. 電影中愛情是主鏇律, 在書中卻其實隻算是副綫. 喜歡關於nationalism, imperialism的主題. 寫法也有些意識流.
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