When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its ins ular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz,...
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its ins ular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world.
Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa - not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm. (查看原文)
E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India explores the difficulty in the mutual understanding and cohabitation of the British and the Indian people in British India in the early twentieth century. The major events centers on an alleged attempted rape. Dr. Aziz, t...
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I find this reading experience quite disturbing, for no one in this novel is adorable enough. Aziz is certainly the star of the book, his words, especially when he is disturbed, are quite sincere and sharp; however, most of the times he can make one so irri...
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抄录书中极短的一章。其间的文字有大美。交错的人，事，和物，走笔一处，又荡开去，起伏开合，大波浪里亦有细碎的水花闪烁。 Chapter 10 THE heat had leapt forward in the last hour, the street was deserted as if a catastrophe had cleaned off humanity during the in...
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Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them. The triumphant machine of civilization may suddenly hitch and be immobilized into a car of stone, and at such moments the destiny of the English seems to resemble their predecessors', who also entered the country with intent...
2016-10-16 15:31:36
Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.
The triumphant machine of civilization may suddenly hitch and be immobilized into a car of stone, and at such moments the destiny of the English seems to resemble their predecessors', who also entered the country with intent to refashion it, but were in the end worked into its pattern and covered with its dust.
All over the city and over much of India the same retreat on the part of humanity was beginning, into cellars, up hills, under trees. April, herald of horrors, is at hand. The sun was returning to his kingdom with power but without beauty—that was the sinister feature. If only there had been beauty! His cruelty would have been tolerable then. Through excess of light, he failed to triumph, he a...
2014-04-18 15:31:37
All over the city and over much of India the same retreat on the part of humanity was beginning, into cellars, up hills, under trees. April, herald of horrors, is at hand. The sun was returning to his kingdom with power but without beauty—that was the sinister feature. If only there had been beauty! His cruelty would have been tolerable then. Through excess of light, he failed to triumph, he also; in his yellowy-white overflow not only matter, but brightness itself lay drowned. He was not the unattainable friend, either of men or birds or other suns, he was not the eternal promise, the never-withdrawn suggestion that haunts our consciousness; he was merely a creature, like the rest, and so debarred from glory引自 Chapter 10
"She'll apologize if that's the trouble," He cried, sitting up. "Look, I'll make you an offer. Dictate to me whatever form of words you like, and this time to-morrow I'll bring it back signed. This is not instead of any public apology she may make you in law. It's an addition." " 'Dear Dr Aziz, I wish you had come into the cave; I am an awful old hag, and it is my last chance.' Will she sign th...
2013-04-05 10:11:58
"She'll apologize if that's the trouble," He cried, sitting up. "Look, I'll make you an offer. Dictate to me whatever form of words you like, and this time to-morrow I'll bring it back signed. This is not instead of any public apology she may make you in law. It's an addition."
" 'Dear Dr Aziz, I wish you had come into the cave; I am an awful old hag, and it is my last chance.' Will she sign that?"引自 chapter 27
Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa - not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm. somewhere in that statement exists a little bit truth...but still! offended
2013-04-04 11:04:10
Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa - not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm.引自 Chapter 24
somewhere in that statement exists a little bit truth...but still! offended
All over the city and over much of India the same retreat on the part of humanity was beginning, into cellars, up hills, under trees. April, herald of horrors, is at hand. The sun was returning to his kingdom with power but without beauty—that was the sinister feature. If only there had been beauty! His cruelty would have been tolerable then. Through excess of light, he failed to triumph, he a...
2014-04-18 15:31:37
All over the city and over much of India the same retreat on the part of humanity was beginning, into cellars, up hills, under trees. April, herald of horrors, is at hand. The sun was returning to his kingdom with power but without beauty—that was the sinister feature. If only there had been beauty! His cruelty would have been tolerable then. Through excess of light, he failed to triumph, he also; in his yellowy-white overflow not only matter, but brightness itself lay drowned. He was not the unattainable friend, either of men or birds or other suns, he was not the eternal promise, the never-withdrawn suggestion that haunts our consciousness; he was merely a creature, like the rest, and so debarred from glory引自 Chapter 10
Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them. The triumphant machine of civilization may suddenly hitch and be immobilized into a car of stone, and at such moments the destiny of the English seems to resemble their predecessors', who also entered the country with intent...
2016-10-16 15:31:36
Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.
The triumphant machine of civilization may suddenly hitch and be immobilized into a car of stone, and at such moments the destiny of the English seems to resemble their predecessors', who also entered the country with intent to refashion it, but were in the end worked into its pattern and covered with its dust.
Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa - not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm. somewhere in that statement exists a little bit truth...but still! offended
2013-04-04 11:04:10
Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa - not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm.引自 Chapter 24
somewhere in that statement exists a little bit truth...but still! offended
Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them. The triumphant machine of civilization may suddenly hitch and be immobilized into a car of stone, and at such moments the destiny of the English seems to resemble their predecessors', who also entered the country with intent...
2016-10-16 15:31:36
Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.
The triumphant machine of civilization may suddenly hitch and be immobilized into a car of stone, and at such moments the destiny of the English seems to resemble their predecessors', who also entered the country with intent to refashion it, but were in the end worked into its pattern and covered with its dust.
All over the city and over much of India the same retreat on the part of humanity was beginning, into cellars, up hills, under trees. April, herald of horrors, is at hand. The sun was returning to his kingdom with power but without beauty—that was the sinister feature. If only there had been beauty! His cruelty would have been tolerable then. Through excess of light, he failed to triumph, he a...
2014-04-18 15:31:37
All over the city and over much of India the same retreat on the part of humanity was beginning, into cellars, up hills, under trees. April, herald of horrors, is at hand. The sun was returning to his kingdom with power but without beauty—that was the sinister feature. If only there had been beauty! His cruelty would have been tolerable then. Through excess of light, he failed to triumph, he also; in his yellowy-white overflow not only matter, but brightness itself lay drowned. He was not the unattainable friend, either of men or birds or other suns, he was not the eternal promise, the never-withdrawn suggestion that haunts our consciousness; he was merely a creature, like the rest, and so debarred from glory引自 Chapter 10
"She'll apologize if that's the trouble," He cried, sitting up. "Look, I'll make you an offer. Dictate to me whatever form of words you like, and this time to-morrow I'll bring it back signed. This is not instead of any public apology she may make you in law. It's an addition." " 'Dear Dr Aziz, I wish you had come into the cave; I am an awful old hag, and it is my last chance.' Will she sign th...
2013-04-05 10:11:58
"She'll apologize if that's the trouble," He cried, sitting up. "Look, I'll make you an offer. Dictate to me whatever form of words you like, and this time to-morrow I'll bring it back signed. This is not instead of any public apology she may make you in law. It's an addition."
" 'Dear Dr Aziz, I wish you had come into the cave; I am an awful old hag, and it is my last chance.' Will she sign that?"引自 chapter 27
Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa - not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm. somewhere in that statement exists a little bit truth...but still! offended
2013-04-04 11:04:10
Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa - not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm.引自 Chapter 24
somewhere in that statement exists a little bit truth...but still! offended
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上海译文出版社2016版
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Mariner Books1965版
All over the city and over much of India the same retreat on the part of humanity was beginning, into cellars, up hills, under trees. April, herald of horrors, is at hand. The sun was returning to his kingdom with power but without beauty—that was the sinister feature. If only there had been beauty! His cruelty would have been tolerable then. Through excess of light, he failed to triumph, he a...
0 有用 Pure Lunacy 2006-11-30 11:37:25
Centuries of carnal embracement, yet man is no near understanding man.
0 有用 王荣欣 2012-02-22 10:09:24
1957年版
0 有用 RDX 2010-04-25 07:11:38
不错
0 有用 mondain 2014-06-04 22:48:06
On this day in 1924, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India was published.
0 有用 Baristina 2013-04-05 22:17:38
比EM其他的书好看/不遗余力地黑印度/故事完整可是感觉好虚浮
2 有用 Decem 2021-11-23 09:07:39
读福斯特的文笔和思考真的是让我受教，我完全不喜欢这个题材都看他的文笔都看得津津有味，觉得他说得有道理🤣 可以说是把殖民说的很好了，两个完全不同的文化和思想，社会等级，偏见，以及殖民地不应该是一个exotic的意向，而是一个无比复杂的东西...但更好的是对于人的理解吧，里面的每个人物都跃然纸上，很喜欢里面对于The sublime的探讨，山洞里到底有没有东西，狂欢节到底在狂欢什么，我跟fieldin... 读福斯特的文笔和思考真的是让我受教，我完全不喜欢这个题材都看他的文笔都看得津津有味，觉得他说得有道理🤣 可以说是把殖民说的很好了，两个完全不同的文化和思想，社会等级，偏见，以及殖民地不应该是一个exotic的意向，而是一个无比复杂的东西...但更好的是对于人的理解吧，里面的每个人物都跃然纸上，很喜欢里面对于The sublime的探讨，山洞里到底有没有东西，狂欢节到底在狂欢什么，我跟fielding这样的无神论者估计永远不知道，我们的人生将永远缺这块；而且感觉福斯特是个悲观但心怀希望的人吧，Aziz和Fielding彻底BE，但福斯特说未来说不定他们的后代就能相互理解 (展开)
0 有用 GREER 2021-08-04 21:10:51
Best novel written by Forster.
0 有用 Pangur Bán 2021-06-16 13:45:26
能够让我对小说里任何一个人物都没有好感的作家目前也就只有奥康纳、福斯特和麦卡锡了吧 。 。。
0 有用 heterotopia 2021-03-03 02:29:51
二刷
0 有用 rmy 2021-02-07 16:33:48
福斯特当年构思《印度之行》时，已有多年没有公开发表小说。世人都谓他江郎才尽时，他却恍如“梦笔生花”，十四年后终于磨出此剑。据说伍尔芙及其丈夫伦纳德曾就此书的思路与福斯特多有恰谈，而作者第二次印度之行的路上更是拜读了乔伊斯与普鲁斯特的先锋文学。凡此种种都对此书创作影响颇深。小说中的族裔矛盾、文化误读、性别危机、宗教藩篱、殖民者与被殖民者的吊诡心态…扭织在一起，而结尾处Aziz萌发的印度民族意识却俨如... 福斯特当年构思《印度之行》时，已有多年没有公开发表小说。世人都谓他江郎才尽时，他却恍如“梦笔生花”，十四年后终于磨出此剑。据说伍尔芙及其丈夫伦纳德曾就此书的思路与福斯特多有恰谈，而作者第二次印度之行的路上更是拜读了乔伊斯与普鲁斯特的先锋文学。凡此种种都对此书创作影响颇深。小说中的族裔矛盾、文化误读、性别危机、宗教藩篱、殖民者与被殖民者的吊诡心态…扭织在一起，而结尾处Aziz萌发的印度民族意识却俨如一个迄今无解的悲剧。就像福斯特在小说中借主人公的思绪一语道破一样：印度希望成为日本，却永远无法复制日本。 (展开)