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发表于2024-11-11
On Beauty pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Truly human, fully ourselves, beautiful," muses a character in Smith's third novel, an intrepid attempt to explore the sad stuff of adult life, 21st century–style: adultery, identity crises and emotional suffocation, interracial and intraracial global conflicts and religious zealotry. Like Smith's smash debut, White Teeth (2000), this work gathers narrative steam from the clash between two radically different families, with a plot that explicitly parallels Howards End. A failed romance between the evangelical son of the messy, liberal Belseys;Howard is Anglo-WASP and Kiki African-American;and the gorgeous daughter of the staid, conservative, Anglo-Caribbean Kipps leads to a soulful, transatlantic understanding between the families' matriarchs, Kiki and Carlene, even as their respective husbands, the art professors Howard and Monty, amass matériel for the culture wars at a fictional Massachusetts university. Meanwhile, Howard and Kiki must deal with Howard's extramarital affair, as their other son, Levi, moves from religion to politics. Everyone theorizes about art, and everyone searches for connections, sexual and otherwise. A very simple but very funny joke;that Howard, a Rembrandt scholar, hates Rembrandt;allows Smith to discourse majestically on some of the master's finest paintings. The articulate portrait of daughter Zora depicts the struggle to incorporate intellectual values into action. The elaborate Forster homage, as well as a too-neat alignment between characters, concerns and foils, threaten Smith's insightful probing of what makes life complicated (and beautiful), but those insights eventually add up. "There is such a shelter in each other," Carlene tells Kiki; it's a take on Forster's "Only Connect;," but one that finds new substance here.
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Winner of the ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2006
shortlisted for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2005
"Wonderfully funny,An outstanding novelist with a powerful understanding both of what the brain knows and what love knows"
--- the Observer
A bit too much like Howards End.....
评分A bit too much like Howards End.....
评分A bit too much like Howards End.....
评分A bit too much like Howards End.....
评分A bit too much like Howards End.....
英国女作家扎笛·史密斯(Zadie Smith)的小说《论美》(On beauty)是近几年来我迫不及待想要阅读的唯一一本文学作品。在《世界文学》2007年第5期上读到其节译后,我就决心一定要弄到原文全本,而且我也已经相信,这位作家将是我今后忠实追看的对象。 《论美》出版于2005年,...
评分还好,感觉翻译问题不大,读的满顺利的,只有少许别扭之处。我一直要求自己不要轻易因为翻译问而错过1本好书。 另外,作者好年轻啊。
评分btr的五颗星推荐当然要拿来看看。 翻译真是糟糕,还有许多莫名其妙的黑体字,不过“《关于美》超越了翻译”,这点在我读过五分之二也开始认同起来,不动声色的讽刺多精彩啊。 黑人女主人公姬姬的形象总叫我眼前浮现出奥巴马夫人的样子,那巨大的……臀部。 封面上遐想连篇的素...
On Beauty pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024