Julian Barnes is the author of eight novels, including Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, England, England and Love Etc., and two collections of short stories, Cross Channel and The Lemon Table.
Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events, which made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages.
George Edjali's father is Indian, his mother Scottish. When the family begins to receive vicious anonymous letters, many about their son, they put it down to racial prejudice. They appeal to the police, to no less than the Chief Constable, but to their dismay he appears to suspect George of being the letters' author. Then someone starts slashing horses and livestock. Again the police seem to suspect the shy, aloof Birmingham solicitor. He is arrested and, on the flimsiest evidence, sent to trial, found guilty and sentenced to seven years' hard labour.
Arthur Conan Doyle, famous as the creator of the world's greatest detective, is mourning his first wife (having been chastely in love for ten years with the woman who was to become his second) when he hears about the Edjali case. Incensed at this obvious miscarriage of justice, he is galvanised into trying to clear George's name.
With a mixture of detailed research and vivid imagination, Julian Barnes brings to life not just this long-forgotten case, but also the inner lives of these two very different men. The reader sees them both with stunning clarity, and almost inhabits them as they face the vicissitudes of their lives, whether in the dock hearing a verdict of guilty, or trying to live an honourable life while desperately in love with another woman. This is a novel in which the events of a hundred years ago constantly set off contemporary echoes, a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race; about what we think, what we believe, and what we know. Julian Barnes has long been recognised as one of Britain's most remarkable writers. While those already familiar with his work will enjoy its elegance, its wit, its profound wisdom about the human condition, Arthur & George will surely find him an entirely new audience.
英国的纯文学作家们大都有一个特点,低产。 不能笼统的说低产。而是说,写下一本书,往往需要五六年甚至更多的时间,无论是厚积薄发还是连载式的撰写,我觉得这都是值得尊敬的。 其实我对于这点很是好奇,五年的时间,足够任何人去成长,无论是五十岁,还是五岁。而如果用这么...
評分虽然这本书被吹捧为“21世纪年度最佳外国小说-评选中2005年度英国文学入选作品”,如何如何XX,但我的感觉这就是一本很垃圾的书。 再看看这个作者写的另一本书名《福楼拜的鹦鹉》,虽然还没看过。但起码读了亚瑟与乔治之后觉得,此人就象中国现在的某些人,靠拉扯点名人之类的...
評分 評分 評分讀瞭這本書,纔知道柯南道爾並非他筆下的福爾摩斯一樣married to his work,誰曾想大作傢竟然也有婚外戀,而且還憑著一股compassion為George受到的不公呐喊。整部書讀起來有一種愉悅的快感~
评分看到第61頁齣現Sherlock Holmes的名字我纔意識到這是Conan Doyle的傳記!!!!……Barnes實在太能寫瞭!!!!!!
评分讀瞭這本書,纔知道柯南道爾並非他筆下的福爾摩斯一樣married to his work,誰曾想大作傢竟然也有婚外戀,而且還憑著一股compassion為George受到的不公呐喊。整部書讀起來有一種愉悅的快感~
评分Arthur Conan Doyle bested and undone by his own creations. About empire, racism, faith, and epistemology.
评分Arthur Conan Doyle bested and undone by his own creations. About empire, racism, faith, and epistemology.
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