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The Painted Veil

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W. Somerset Maugham
Vintage; Reprint edition
2004-2-10
256
USD 13.95
Paperback
9781400034215

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Shallow, poorly educated Kitty marries the passionate and intellectual Walter Fane and has an affair with a career politician, Charles Townsend, assistant colonial secretary of Hong Kong. When Walter discovers the relationship, he compels Kitty to accompany him to a cholera-infested region of mainland China, where she finds limited happiness working with children at a convent. But when Walter dies, she is forced to leave China and return to England. Generally abandoned, she grasps desperately for the affection of her one remaining relative, her long-ignored father. In the end, in sharp, unexamined contrast to her own behavior patterns, she asserts that her unborn daughter will grow up to be an independent woman. The Painted Veil was first published in 1925 and is usually described as a strong story about a woman's spiritual journey. To more pragmatic, modern eyes, Kitty's emotional growth appears minimal. Still, if not a major feminist work, the book has literary interest. Sophie Ward's uninflected reading is competent if not compelling.

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著者简介

William Somerset Maugham, CH (January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors achieving recognition as the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s.

Commercial success with high book sales, successful play productions and a string of film adaptations, backed by astute stock market investments, allowed Maugham to live a very comfortable life. Small and weak as a boy, Maugham had been proud even then of his stamina, and as an adult he kept churning out the books, proud that he could.

Yet, despite his triumphs, he never attracted the highest respect from the critics or his peers. Maugham himself attributed this to his lack of "lyrical quality", his small vocabulary and failure to make expert use of metaphor in his work.

It seems equally likely that Maugham was underrated because he wrote in such a direct style. There was nothing in a book by Maugham that the reading public needed explained to them by critics. Maugham thought clearly, wrote lucidly, and expressed acerbic and sometimes cynical opinions in handsome, civilized prose. He wrote in a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and won critical acclaim. In this context, his writing was criticized as "such a tissue of clichés that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way"[16].

Maugham's homosexual leanings also shaped his fiction, in two ways. Since, in life, he tended to see attractive women as sexual rivals, he often gave the women of his fiction sexual needs and appetites, in a way quite unusual for distinguished authors of his time. "Liza of Lambeth," "Cakes and Ale" and "The Razor's Edge" all featured women determined to service their strong sexual appetites, heedless of the result.

Also, the fact that Maugham's own sexual appetites were highly disapproved of, or even criminal, in nearly all of the countries in which he traveled, made Maugham unusually tolerant of the vices of others. Readers and critics often complained that Maugham did not clearly enough condemn what was bad in the villains of his fiction and plays. Maugham replied in 1938: "It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me."

Maugham's public account of his abilities remained modest; toward the end of his career he described himself as "in the very first row of the second-raters". In 1954, he was made a Companion of Honour.

Maugham had begun collecting theatrical paintings before the First World War and continued to the point where his collection was second only to that of the Garrick Club[17]. In 1948 he announced that he would bequeath this collection to the Trustees of the National Theatre, and from 1951, some 14 years before his death, it began its exhibition life and in 1994 they were placed on loan to the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden.


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alas..

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电影改动太大,毛姆知道了估计要跳脚。

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喜欢同名电影的可以来看原著~

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这种“无法逃避的命运”的话题真是被毛姆偏爱啊,所以其实全书也是Kitty揭开面纱的过程吧。说真的最后实在是过于诚实了。

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这种“无法逃避的命运”的话题真是被毛姆偏爱啊,所以其实全书也是Kitty揭开面纱的过程吧。说真的最后实在是过于诚实了。

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一直以为这只是一个以神秘东方背景为卖点的爱情故事,一对互不了解却匆匆结合的夫妇,军阀混战时期一个霍乱横行的中国南方小城,异国他乡,生与死的考验,绝望中的互相理解与抚慰,爱情的温暖战胜死亡的寒冷,一点也不像毛姆。但是我错了,竟然让好莱坞先入为主。 毛姆...  

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一直以为这只是一个以神秘东方背景为卖点的爱情故事,一对互不了解却匆匆结合的夫妇,军阀混战时期一个霍乱横行的中国南方小城,异国他乡,生与死的考验,绝望中的互相理解与抚慰,爱情的温暖战胜死亡的寒冷,一点也不像毛姆。但是我错了,竟然让好莱坞先入为主。 毛姆...  

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小说《面纱》的扉页上的第一行文字:别揭开这神秘的面纱——雪莱。不得不说,这激发了我阅读此书的兴趣,到底是有什么神秘的面纱? 在瓦尔特死去之前,我都没明白真正的面纱在哪里,又神秘在哪里。他说完“最后死的却是狗”就去世了,一直到小说结束我都还不清楚他的遗言到底是...  

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