阿拉文德·阿迪加一九七四年出生于印度海港城市马德拉斯,后移居澳大利亚。毕业后曾任《时代周刊》驻印度通讯记者,并为《金融时报》、《独立报》、《星期日泰晤士报》等英国媒体撰稿。现居孟买。《白老虎》是其处女作。
Aravind Adiga's extraordinary and brilliant first novel takes the form of a series of letters to Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, from Balram Halwai, the Bangalore businessman who is the self-styled “White Tiger” of the title. Bangalore is the Silicon Valley of the subcontinent, and on the eve of a state visit by Jiabao, our entrepreneur Halwai wishes to impart something of the new India to the Chinese premier - “out of respect for the love of liberty shown by the Chinese people, and also in the belief that the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, mobile phone usage and drug abuse”.
Halwai's lesson about the new India is drawn from the rags-to-riches story of his own life. For Halwai, the son of a rural rickshaw-puller, is from the “Darkness”: “Please understand, Your Excellency, that India is two countries in one: an India of Light, and an India of Darkness. The ocean brings light to my country. Every place on the map of India near the ocean is well-off. But the river brings darkness to India - the black river.”
The black river is the Ganges, beloved of the sari-and-spices tourist image of India. (“No! - Mr Jiabao, I urge you not to dip in the Ganga, unless you want your mouth full of faeces, straw, soggy parts of human bodies, buffalo carrion, and seven different kinds of industrial acids.”)
At first, this novel seems like a straightforward pulled-up-by-your-bootstraps tale, albeit given a dazzling twist by the narrator's sharp and satirical eye for the realities of life for India's poor. (“In the old days there were 1,000 castes...in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies, and Men with Small Bellies.”) But as the narrative draws the reader further in, and darkens, it becomes clear that Adiga is playing a bigger game. For The White Tiger stands at the opposite end of the spectrum of representations of poverty from those images of doe-eyed children that dominate our electronic media - that sentimentalise poverty and even suggest that there may be something ennobling in it. Halwai's lesson in The White Tiger is that poverty creates monsters, and he himself is just such a monster.
吃人么? 就是这样的现实。 能让人忍俊不禁看完的现实。 作者笔下形容的黑色的蛋,包不住所有人,总会有只金黄的鸟,冲破蛋壳,用碎片,释放自己。 印度有牛,有人,有牛人,有神。 只是,想到咱中国, 中国的老虎已经绝种了吧,笼子外面的,只有跳跳虎在卖萌
评分13年游走印度的时候我一直有不解,跟中国相比那些不收门票的寺庙总是香火极旺当地信徒虔诚敬拜人数极多,可“以XXX神的名义向你保证”却也是商贩们讨价还价的常用语调。比如在瓦拉纳西看宗教仪式,跑过来当导游的小伙子会首先警告你尊重仪式不能拍照,而后会带你到旁边选取一个...
评分 评分 评分《白老虎》是一本非常特别的小说,曾一度让我误以为是政治性的书信体作品,因为它的封面语为:一位印度企业家写给中国总理的信。结果读过之后,发现真乃大错特错,事实上这是一本诙谐幽默风趣的虚构小说,当然虚中也有实,而它的独到之处,恰恰就在于书信体的设定上。 ...
其实没读下去。。。
评分在多伦多的二手书店随机挑的。被开头的故事情节吸引。总是在他乡寻找故乡。
评分开头就很吸引眼球,角度新颖,整部小说都是写给温总理的一封长信,讲述一部个人传奇。中间稍微细碎逊色一点,但后半开始又吸引了,很想知道主角到底做了什么走到现在这一步。中间穿插的印度“特色”,虽然是小说,但我相信还是有事实依据的,印度应该确实是一个很糟糕的国家,the last place I wanna visit in the world....最后附录那些讨论和作者采访还挺发人深省的,有些问题真的很难回答,道德难题。 补录,于2016.7.20读完。
评分Just after turning the first few pages, i am absorbed and can't stopped reading it and saying it a great fun.
评分文中的读者是温家宝;可能原因:印度和中国同属亚洲国家,存在一定竞争关系(narrator对中国态度不明);无产阶级政党,本质上没有caste; 小说中首句话强调了,有些话只能用英语说得清楚,暗示了读者应该是印度的中产阶级(具有良好的英语水平),因为narrator本质上希望让这些人读懂; 解读方向:”the Rooster Coop ”文化,caster层面;”the Jungle Rule” 经济层面,推断故事发生时代+当时印度经济发展情况,揭示发展背后的黑暗面,”the Black Fort”;殖民遗留痕迹,不可接近,政治层面的专权。 作者描绘了subaltern的生存困境。同时通过Balram动物化的描绘,给upper class警示,同时也是对全球新自由资本主义的警示。
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