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发表于2024-12-23
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Michel Faber's short stories are markedly diverse-the voice of each is so distinct that the book reads like an anthology of different writers. But Faber's radically inventive style fastens all fifteen stories into a compelling collection deserving of the high praise it garnered in the United Kingdom. One surreal story, "Fish," projects a futuristic world populated with fish swimming in the air. As sharks hover in abandoned corners and human zealots of the Church of the Armageddon loose their fanaticism on the innocent, it's a mother's full-time job to protect her young daughter. The title story, ""Some Rain Must Fall, "" tells of a substitute schoolteacher called on in a crisis, and as she encourages her pupils to express their feelings, we learn the source of the class's trouble: a devastating act that resonates with contemporary America. As Garth Morris wrote in the Mail on Sunday (London), "these are well-crafted pieces of quiet forlorn intensity in a very real world."
Michel Faber's work has been published in twenty countries and received several literary awards. He lives in Scotland.
Biography
Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.
Thus Michel Faber lures readers into the Victorian saga of The Crimson Petal and the White, a novel that has earned Faber comparisons to Charles Dickens and delivered on the promise of his first, markedly different novel Under the Skin. Petal is an exhaustively researched chronicle of 1870s London as seen through the eyes of a young prostitute whose ambition carries her (and the reader) to higher levels in society. Faber's come-hither approach to writing the book jives with both his characters and his approach to reading. "I use the metaphor of a novel being like a prostitute, promising the reader a good time, promising intimacy and companionship," he says in a publisher's interview. "Ironically, even though you feel at first that you're being strung along by this beguiling voice, you do end up getting everything it promised you. And more, I hope."
Faber seduced readers with a predatory protagonist in the sci-fi-like Under the Skin. He brings his audience in league with Isserley, an otherworldly character who preys on human men in Scotland for their body parts, then sends the fruits of her labor back to her home territory. Faber's potency as a writer lies in his ability to lead the reader into a story with a number of matter-of-fact details, some sticking out more than others -- things don't get completely strange in Under the Skin until Isserley happens to flick a switch in her car and needles emerge from the passenger seat, sedating the hitchhiker she's picked up.
"The more the writer tries to force the reader to regard something as amazing and special, the more suspicious and bored the reader will become," Faber said in an interview with the Barcelona Review in 2002. "The reader needs to feel that the weirdness or the beauty or the horror in a story has an independent reality from what anyone says about it. That’s an illusion, of course: the writer is responsible. But the illusion is essential." Faber succeeds in crafting these illusions, whether they are the stuff of real life or fantasy. As the New York Times noted in its impressed and bemused review of Under the Skin, "His writing is chaste, dryly humorous and resolutely moral. The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both..."
It's evident from these two novels and from the short story collection Some Rain Must Fall, which mixes fantastic and humdrum settings, that Faber knows no bounds when it comes to genre or milieu. Like his protagonists, he can take his strengths into foreign territories, succeeding by coercion if necessary.
雨必將落下
評分亦真亦幻,有種讀卡波特的感覺。
評分亦真亦幻,有種讀卡波特的感覺。
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这本书是由一系列短篇小说组成的。 我很喜欢“雨必将落下”这个名字。生命中该来的总会来,就像雨必将落下一样。 其他还有几篇短篇是不太常见的风格,有点奇幻,有点让人不知所措。但总体来说,worth a try。
評分我必须要好好吹一下这本书的装帧。封面也太好看了,完全长在我的审美上,淡淡的粉配有点灰调的棕,再加上几滴烫金的雨滴,虽然风格跟书读完给人的感受大相径庭,但就是这个封面,完全长在我的审美上。里面的书签也是简简单单一张黑色的底色,再配几滴白色的斜斜的雨滴,加上文...
評分#法柏的魅力,大概是奇特的视角、戏谑的幽默、丰富又妙趣横生的素材,还有耐人寻味的开放式结局。如此内敛,让你自己去猜情节和独自体味结局。 #作为大人的我们也许过于小看孩子的思想和自愈能力了,雨必将落下,一切也终将过去。习惯于用雨伞把自身和周遭包裹起来,却忘记了即...
評分我得承认,对于孤陋寡闻的在下而言,随便翻开这本书的一页看了个故事就被震惊了,小说原来可以写得这么华丽这么丰富这么多姿多彩?实在是吾山野村夫前所未见。 读法柏的短篇小说就像在漫步在博物馆的走廊上一样舒心惬意,这里有着变幻莫测的光线,千丝万缕的气息,而当你随时...
評分浅蓝色的封面和游动的鲸鱼,配成了《雨必将落下》的封面,在我看来,这两个符号也暗含了米歇尔•法柏的小说风格:忧伤的旋律和游动的气质。 “每个生命中,有些雨必将落下,有些日子注定要阴暗惨淡。”这是美国诗人亨利•沃兹沃斯•费朗罗《雨天》中的诗句,也是这本书书...
Some Rain Must Fall pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024