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发表于2024-08-02
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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.
阿拉文德·阿迪加一九七四年齣生於印度海港城市馬德拉斯,後移居澳大利亞。畢業後曾任《時代周刊》駐印度通訊記者,並為《金融時報》、《獨立報》、《星期日泰晤士報》等英國媒體撰稿。現居孟買。《白老虎》是其處女作。
比起中國,印度的可研究內容太多太多瞭。比如民主製度下又有rootster coop的約束。北印度和南印度對咖啡的看法 ps之前的les cp房東女兒要去印度玩的時候她就推薦這一本
評分A brilliant novel that can not be put down once it is picked up (Although it took me 3 years to finish...-_- ). Black humor, witty, yet very realistic...
評分開頭就很吸引眼球,角度新穎,整部小說都是寫給溫總理的一封長信,講述一部個人傳奇。中間稍微細碎遜色一點,但後半開始又吸引瞭,很想知道主角到底做瞭什麼走到現在這一步。中間穿插的印度“特色”,雖然是小說,但我相信還是有事實依據的,印度應該確實是一個很糟糕的國傢,the last place I wanna visit in the world....最後附錄那些討論和作者采訪還挺發人深省的,有些問題真的很難迴答,道德難題。 補錄,於2016.7.20讀完。
評分能看齣作者的記者背景,作為全球資本主義批判,小說的寓意未免太清晰,文字也缺乏修理。隻能說他的敘事聲音太有效,並具真實的觀察基礎。
評分雖然主角是Balram,但最復雜、最迷人,我最喜歡、也最惋惜的角色是Ashok。
真好啊,1974年出生的人,就已经能写出这么好的小说。 印度真是不可小觑。 有意思的是小说竟然是一个黑手起家的企业家写给中国总理的七封长信。 不难看出,年轻的作者甚至认为过去的那种种姓阶级制度都比现在这样“吃人与被吃”的社会状态要幸福美满得多。就像,呵呵,其实...
評分 評分真好啊,1974年出生的人,就已经能写出这么好的小说。 印度真是不可小觑。 有意思的是小说竟然是一个黑手起家的企业家写给中国总理的七封长信。 不难看出,年轻的作者甚至认为过去的那种种姓阶级制度都比现在这样“吃人与被吃”的社会状态要幸福美满得多。就像,呵呵,其实...
評分吃人么? 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
評分i have been to india many times and stayed there for quite some time. i think i may have a fair view of what india may be like since in china or rest of the world, people may have two sharply contrasting points of view towards india: a giant moving fast wit...
The White Tiger pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024