David Lodge(1935– ), English novelist and critic, b. London, grad. University College, London (B.A., M.A.) and the Univ. of Birmingham (Ph.D.). Lodge taught at the Univ. of Birmingham (1960–87), during which time he wrote studies of Graham Greene (1966) and Evelyn Waugh (1971). His works of criticism, which deal mainly with modern literary theory, include The Language of Fiction (1966), The Modes of Modern Writing (1977), Working with Structuralism (1981), The Art of Fiction (1992), and Consciousness and the Novel (2002). Since 1987 he has been a full-time writer. Lodge has used his deep intimacy with the academic world in many of his novels, which reveal a talent for deft characterization, wry humor, and incisive commentary. At its best, Lodge's fiction combines satire with humane sympathy for his characters. His novels include The Picturegoers (1960), Changing Places (1979), Small World (1985), Nice Work (1988), Paradise News (1991), Therapy (1995), and Thinks... (2001).
Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a witty, original and absorbing account of one man’s effort to come to terms with deafness, ageing and mortality, and the comedy and tragedy of human lives.
When the university merged his Department of English with Linguistics, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the routine of the academic year and has lost his appetite for research. His wife Winifred’s late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort, while the rejuvenation of her appearance makes him uneasily conscious of the age gap between them. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on his aged father who stubbornly refuses to leave the house he is patently unable to live in with safety.
But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss — a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment, leading Desmond into mistakes, misunderstandings and follies. It might be comic for others, but for the deaf person himself, it is no joke. It is his deafness which inadvertently involves Desmond with a young woman whose wayward behaviour threatens to destabilize his life completely.
这是我第一次读到这种日记形式的书,至少是第一本我有着深刻印象且整本读完的书籍。 一个失聪的人,他的生活,他的那种独特的生活视角。 因为他的失聪,不可否认,他的生活中出现了很多的矛盾,与妻子之间偶尔的不协调与争吵,在家外遇到的各种囧事,以及在一些特殊聚会或者说...
評分有趣的是,读这本书的时候我也在读《失明症漫记》,《失明症漫记》开场的神秘荒诞占了上峰,我更愿意看【失明】,等到“杀戮”开始后,就翻不动了……转投到【失聪】后显得轻松了很多,作者也对失明和失聪做了比照,也承认听不见比看不见好得多,在残疾里是最轻微的,但是不管...
評分有趣的是,读这本书的时候我也在读《失明症漫记》,《失明症漫记》开场的神秘荒诞占了上峰,我更愿意看【失明】,等到“杀戮”开始后,就翻不动了……转投到【失聪】后显得轻松了很多,作者也对失明和失聪做了比照,也承认听不见比看不见好得多,在残疾里是最轻微的,但是不管...
評分 評分挺無聊的...主題不是很明確,但又不是那種本來就是沒主題的設定。讀也罷不讀也罷沒有區彆。
评分deaf and grow old desmond's visit to his father in the old home really touched me on a similar gloomy night so did the spanking punishment also love the cold afternoon by the canal |18.5.13-24| your standard academic novel got a bit of everything not fantastic but more than enough for a Lodge fan third book ive read that mentions euthanasia
评分挺無聊的...主題不是很明確,但又不是那種本來就是沒主題的設定。讀也罷不讀也罷沒有區彆。
评分斷斷續續讀瞭幾個月纔讀完,因為有一點點沉悶,看到最後幾十頁甚至知道看到最後纔欲罷不能,還記得念大學時看得Lodge的兩本書都是荒誕樂中不經意夾雜著絲絲傷感,而這本是一直很傷感,到結尾迸發!
评分挺無聊的...主題不是很明確,但又不是那種本來就是沒主題的設定。讀也罷不讀也罷沒有區彆。
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