出版社: University of Minnesota Press
出版年: 2001-3-20
页数: 186
定价: USD 15.95
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780816638628
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When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a...
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.
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克里斯托弗·伊舍伍德 作者
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Christopher Isherwood was a novelist, playwright, screen-writer, autobiographer, and diarist. He was also homosexual and made this a theme of some of his writing. He was born near Manchester in the north of England in 1904, became a U.S. citizen in 1946, and died at home in Santa Monica, California in January 1986.
Isherwood was the grandson and heir of a country squire, and hi...
Christopher Isherwood was a novelist, playwright, screen-writer, autobiographer, and diarist. He was also homosexual and made this a theme of some of his writing. He was born near Manchester in the north of England in 1904, became a U.S. citizen in 1946, and died at home in Santa Monica, California in January 1986.
Isherwood was the grandson and heir of a country squire, and his boyhood was privileged. With a school friend, Wystan Auden, he wrote three plays—The Dog Beneath the Skin (1932), The Ascent of F6 (1936), and On the Frontier (1938). Isherwood tells the story in his first autobiography, Lions and Shadows.
In 1925, Isherwood was asked to leave Cambridge University after writing joke answers on his second-year exams. He briefly attended medical school, and progressed with his first two novels, All the Conspirators (1928) and The Memorial (1932). In 1930, he moved to Berlin where he taught English, dabbled in communism, and enthusiastically explored his homosexuality. His experiences there, provided the material for Mr. Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1938), still his most famous book.
In Berlin in 1932, he also began an important relationship with a young German, Heinz Neddermeyer, with whom he fled the Nazis in 1933. Neddermeyer was refused entry to England on his second visit in 1934, and the pair moved restlessly about Europe until they were finally separated when Neddermeyer was arrested by the Gestapo in May 1937.
In 1938, Isherwood sailed with Auden to China to write Journey to a War (1939), about the Sino-Japanese conflict. They returned to England and Isherwood went on to Hollywood to look for movie-writing work. He also became a disciple of the Ramakrishna monk, Swami Prabhavananda, head of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. He decided not to take monastic vows, but he remained a Hindu for the rest of his life, serving, praying, and lecturing in the temple every week and writing a biography, Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965).
In 1945, Isherwood published Prater Violet, fictionalizing his first movie writing job in London in 1933-1934. In Hollywood, he spent the start of the 1950s fighting his way free of a destructive five-year affair with an attractive and undisciplined American photographer, William Caskey. Caskey took the photographs for Isherwood’s travel book about South America, The Condor and The Cows (1947). Isherwood’s sixth novel, The World in the Evening (1954), written mostly during this period, was less successful than earlier ones.
In 1953, he fell in love with Don Bachardy, an eighteen-year-old college student born and raised in Los Angeles. They were to remain together until Isherwood’s death. In 1961, Isherwood and completed the final revisions to his new novel Down There on a Visit (1962). Their relationship nearly ended in 1963, and Isherwood moved out of their Santa Monica house. This dark period underpins Isherwood’s masterpiece A Single Man (1964).
Isherwood wrote another novel, A Meeting by the River (1967), about two brothers, but he gave up writing fiction and turned entirely to autobiography. In Kathleen and Frank (1971), he drew on the letters and diaries of his parents. In Christopher and His Kind (1976), he returned to the 1930s to tell, as a publicly avowed homosexual, the real story of his life in Berlin and his wanderings with Heinz Neddermeyer. The book made him a hero of gay liberation and a national celebrity all over again but now in his true, political and personal identity. His last book, My Guru and His Disciple (1980), records with similar honesty his conversion to Hinduism and his devotion to Swami Prabhavananda.
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谁有电子版啊? | 来自Marlene | 28 回应 | 2019-07-11 16:29:36 |
在学校图书馆借到了1964年的第一版 | 来自Rocinante | 19 回应 | 2012-12-23 09:14:29 |
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1 有用 Saaaalomé 2012-01-27 11:47:47
电影版和原著比起来shallow了不止一个档次,看了这本书之后才意识到Matty在Christopher and his kind里演的Isherwood有多失败,长相完全就不对盘就算了,气质也……(顿时理解为什么有人看这片子是从头……笑到尾OTZ
1 有用 哇Danny先生 2018-05-12 23:18:29
Poetically beautiful but tragically heartbreaking
8 有用 金牌真香师 2013-11-20 23:55:25
开头是字字句句间都溢出阻拦不住的悲伤;待读者被那悲伤吸入书页后的中段换成了平实些的写法,写防备着防备着就生出诙谐自嘲的孤独;结尾呢又用层层而来的潮汐溺死你,永远地带走你心里住着那个白夜乔治。
0 有用 Master Faust 2011-08-31 03:57:15
就算Isherwood最后成了美国人也没丢掉英国佬的毒舌。小说没有电影那么有戏剧性。anti-hero的一天算不算也是英国传统?何况这个anti-hero还是教授,还是gay,还和小朋友暧昧,还很cynical,总之从很多角度都很精彩。 比再见柏林好看。
0 有用 耳環超美余老濕 2013-11-25 20:37:27
刚刚买……
0 有用 mipropiocentro 2024-01-04 08:42:46 加拿大
[excerpt] During the descent, their bodies rub against each other, briefly but roughly. The electric field of the dialogue is broken. Their relationship, whatever it now is, is no longer symbolic. The... [excerpt] During the descent, their bodies rub against each other, briefly but roughly. The electric field of the dialogue is broken. Their relationship, whatever it now is, is no longer symbolic. They turn and begin to run toward the ocean. (展开)
0 有用 此前年少 2023-12-15 12:20:10 上海
原著里真的没有George在超市外碰到帅模特那一段哎(为啥现在才感叹,毕竟中译本也看过),原著读起来感觉Kenny的同性情节不那么强,至少和电影里那欲言又止的眼神不大一样。又想再看一遍电影了。
0 有用 Achenpoldi 2022-12-18 20:32:10 广东
A single tear
0 有用 素简 2022-11-07 13:51:50 上海
Interesting and lonely in a positive way.
0 有用 威叔在香港 2022-11-04 14:00:26 中国香港
2022.11.04. 用152页写24小时一天的故事,与电影不同的是,Jim这个角色几乎没有在书中出现过,除了George在一日生活中闪回的几次简短的碎片记忆。书基本上是完全从George这个主体出发,记述在长年伴侣Jim出车祸身亡后他的一个看似平凡无奇的、一如既往如同行尸走肉般的一日。然而这一日他的三个主要经历:(作为大学文学教授)去学校教课,下班后与老友Charlotte晚餐,以及深夜酒吧“... 2022.11.04. 用152页写24小时一天的故事,与电影不同的是,Jim这个角色几乎没有在书中出现过,除了George在一日生活中闪回的几次简短的碎片记忆。书基本上是完全从George这个主体出发,记述在长年伴侣Jim出车祸身亡后他的一个看似平凡无奇的、一如既往如同行尸走肉般的一日。然而这一日他的三个主要经历:(作为大学文学教授)去学校教课,下班后与老友Charlotte晚餐,以及深夜酒吧“偶遇”他的年轻学生Kenny,都并不像他期待的一样平淡无奇。特别是在酒吧遇到Kenny之后,书的最后四十页进入了在我读来最精彩的部分:两人妙语连珠的交谈、一同去海里游泳的“疯狂”、回到George家后的微妙聊天互动,都在一点点唤醒George,给予他继续生活的欲望。最后四十页提升了整本书的阅读体验。 (展开)