E.L. Doctorow is one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed living writers. Winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Humanities Medal, he is the author of nine novels that have explored the drama of American life from the late 19th century to the 21st. Al Alvarez is a poet, literary critic, and author of many non-fiction books on topics ranging from suicide, divorce and dreams – The Savage God, Life After Marriage, Night – to poker and mountaineering – The Biggest Game in Town, Offshore. He was poetry editor of The Observer from 1956-66. He has contributed regularly to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. His most recent books are an autobiography, Where Did It All Go Right?, New & Selected Poems and The Writer’s Voice. He lives in London.
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Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J. P. Morgan dominates the financial world and Henry Ford manufactures cars by making men into machines. Emma Goldman preaches free love and feminism, while ex-chorus girl Evelyn Nesbitt inspires a mad millionaire to murder the architect Stanford White. In this stunningly original chronicle of an age, such real-life characters intermingle with three remarkable families, one black, one Jewish and one prosperous WASP, to create a dazzling literary mosaic that brings to life an era of dire poverty, fabulous wealth, and incredible change in short, the era of ragtime.
知道这部小说是因为我很喜欢根据这部小说改编的同名音乐剧,那种充满节奏感和让人悸动的旋律吸引了我,印象最深刻的是萨拉那首撕心裂肺的《YOUR DADDY'S SON》,本以为小说跟音乐剧一样主要情节是关于科沃豪斯的悲剧,真的看了小说才知道这不是关于一个人的小说,而是一副...
評分文/文小妖 拉格泰姆是产生于19世纪末的美国流行音乐形式之一。这种音乐形式采用于黑人旋律,盛行于第一次世界大战前美国经济十分繁荣时期。 每个时代都有其节奏和步伐。19世纪初期的美国,从一个农村化的共和国变成了城市化的国家。机器代替了手工,产品大量增加。...
評分拉格泰姆时代(RAGTIME BY E. L. Doctorow 译林 1996) 这首乐曲不要弹得太快,拉格泰姆是不能弹得太快的….. ----Scott Joplin 这句话印在书的扉页上。关于“时代”的书似乎都是厚厚的几大本,而这本书,中译本只有236页...
評分 評分E.L.多克特罗在扉页上写了句题记“这首乐曲不要弹得太快。拉格泰姆是不能弹得太快的”,这是拉格泰姆音乐大师斯科特•乔普林的话语。然而如果我们聆听乔普林生前的演奏录音就会发现,他最有名的一首《枫叶拉格泰姆曲》是如此欢快而充满朝气,频繁出现的切分音符将节奏拆...
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