In the "brilliant novel" ( The New York Times ) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between ...
In the "brilliant novel" ( The New York Times ) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
"After all, we make our ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. I would have hidden in my hole and been crippled by sentimentality, doing what I was doing, and doing it well, bu..."After all, we make our ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. I would have hidden in my hole and been crippled by sentimentality, doing what I was doing, and doing it well, but always looking for the wailing wall. And I would never have seen the world as the rich place that it is."
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V. S. 奈保尔 作者
长亭
南海出版公司2014版
Luke
译林出版社2002版
百药
南海出版公司2014版
【读品】
译林出版社2002版
万延元年的足球
南海出版公司2014版
0 有用 阿斯帕拉戈斯 2019-08-28 08:57:26
the philosophy of ‘carry on’ and ‘escape’
0 有用 Moondance 2018-09-07 21:47:05
三星给文笔……丑恶的灵魂～让人sick
0 有用 Gloriousfall 2016-10-04 05:21:08
sheer abundance of talent!
0 有用 blank 2019-03-07 00:38:51
"After all, we make our ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. I would have hidden in my hole and been crippled by sentimentality, doing what I was doing, and doing it well, bu... "After all, we make our ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. I would have hidden in my hole and been crippled by sentimentality, doing what I was doing, and doing it well, but always looking for the wailing wall. And I would never have seen the world as the rich place that it is." (展开)
0 有用 王黄 2018-12-22 18:08:42
A poor life in such a political-economic structure
0 有用 melody tree 2023-05-04 22:27:00 广东
漂浮不定的自我认知，似乎可以属于任何地方，又不属于任何地方。想要冲破漂泊的虚无感，找一个不需要强行融入的异乡生活着，给自己一种安慰：我不需要融入，我不需要属于他们之中的任何人。短暂地获得自己。像极了自己在外留学的那段日子，深深共鸣
0 有用 爱我猫的女土匪 2022-12-28 01:09:49 美国
写得太好了，很多场景和人物，看着都非常熟悉
0 有用 Andy 2022-03-31 00:42:57
背诵过
0 有用 Decem 2021-12-28 19:19:14
补标，没有人比奈保尔更会写无根性，移民的漂泊无根的彷徨他写的太好了，而且我想夸一下叙事结构，没有一处是废的，安排的太好了；文化是多么的重要啊，书中的人物从来就没有自己的文化，活得跟水葫芦一样，永远不会有根基，只能说“践踏自己的过去”，但是他们根本就没有“过去”啊，他们的历史都是欧洲人写出来的，可以由欧洲人去定义的....看到最后只有无尽的悲伤和苍凉
0 有用 香槟塔 2021-12-04 05:57:15
Become the foreigner in the land of one’s birth.