This title includes a reading guide. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonize his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
库切(J. M. Coetzee, 1940―):南非当代著名小说家,自1974年起,先后出版了《幽暗之乡》(Dusklands, 1974)、《国之中心》(In the Heart of the Country: A Novel, 1977)、《等待野蛮人》(Waiting for the Barbarians, 1980)、《迈克尔・K.的生平与时代》(Life and Times of Michael K., 1983;获1983年布克奖)、《敌人》(Foe, 1986)、《铁的时代》(Age of Iron, 1990),以及《彼得堡的主人》(The Master of Petersburg, 1994)等多部小说,被评论界认为是当代南非最重要的作家之一。
像托馬斯一樣的心甘情願的“墜落”,卻因為發生在現代文明與“原始社會”的夾縫中而含有了加倍壓抑的成份。盧里想以激情為名,逃離現代文明偽善的社會規範和令人窒息的壓抑,卻更不能接受農場上接近土地、缺少法律約束、依靠自然法則的生存——。更要命的是,他缺少真正的拜...
评分 评分什么是耻?什么行为构成了耻?有了耻的行为,我们的态度又如何?旁人的看法呢? 性交易?一个52岁的正常的男人有正常的性冲动,需要一个正常的解决通道来解决。如果他有妻子,那一切都是简单的,可是他离婚了。所以安全,为了至少还没有失去兴趣,一直周四就和一个陌生的女子,...
评分 评分像托馬斯一樣的心甘情願的“墜落”,卻因為發生在現代文明與“原始社會”的夾縫中而含有了加倍壓抑的成份。盧里想以激情為名,逃離現代文明偽善的社會規範和令人窒息的壓抑,卻更不能接受農場上接近土地、缺少法律約束、依靠自然法則的生存——。更要命的是,他缺少真正的拜...
Only great writers like Coetzee can write about disgrace in a manner both graceful and cruel for us common readers. Included in this tiny novel is the human nature that goes beyond what happens in South Africa, a kind of fate or "blessing" that both counts as grace and disgrace to the flawed mortals.
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评分becoming the dog || 干净!但这干净隐约散着血肉模糊的气息。结构精致又带一点杂乱:不少words/phrases(尤其是fire, enriched, smell等)在后文delicately重现多重disgrace互相嵌套;Byron的故事贯穿始终但具有流动感。一个老去男人面对年轻女子作为父亲和爱人两个角色间踌躇的状态;两个种族/社会阶层/道德定义/文化对峙时的失语状态;对原始性冲动本能的崇敬、畏惧、困惑、耻辱层层迭起的互相推攘状态等等都被漂亮地capture了并悬在多次出现的silence中等待裁决。而裁决之过程,伴随着indifference和ultimate longing for love最终迎来了nothingness/despair/surrender.
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