Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters. Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and dive into an af...
Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters. Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella is accompanied by five short stories that range in tone from the iconoclastic to the astonishingly tender and that illuminate the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish diaspora.
只读完了Goodbye Columbus一篇,但懒得看完了,无耻地马克一个读过。实在不知道怎么描述,文笔浪漫睿智又迷人,但男主人公行为叫人大喊无语, gaslighting 大师。A summer fling between an insecure, self-doubted yet self-absorbed young philosophy graduate, and wealthy, pre...只读完了Goodbye Columbus一篇,但懒得看完了,无耻地马克一个读过。实在不知道怎么描述,文笔浪漫睿智又迷人,但男主人公行为叫人大喊无语, gaslighting 大师。A summer fling between an insecure, self-doubted yet self-absorbed young philosophy graduate, and wealthy, pretty , simple-minded college girl. He fancied her shallowness and loathed her shallowness. Neil’ manipulation over Brenda is horrendous.(展开)
【当代美国小说】
The title story ✔️
Topics covered: eroticism; social classification and distinction; Jewish identity; commodity culture.
A failed love in an electric, erotic, yet ephemeral summer. Life calls...【当代美国小说】
The title story ✔️
Topics covered: eroticism; social classification and distinction; Jewish identity; commodity culture.
A failed love in an electric, erotic, yet ephemeral summer. Life calls us, and anxiously if not nervously we walk out into the world. As the sun is rising on the first day of New Year, we have plenty of time for work.(展开)
我喜欢Neil在教堂的祈祷,他问what is it I love, Lord?很难讲究竟谁在掌控谁,最后的分手又是不是早有居心命中注定。最美的一幕是第4章Brenda和Neil轮流游泳,“if I stayed away too long she would not be there when I returned.” 这种对生命和爱情的不安太惊艳,于是皮格马利翁的雕像有了生命。
“How can I describe loving Brenda? It was so sweet, as though I'd finally scored that twenty-first point.” “ but suddenly I was sure that when I left the water Brenda would be gone. I'd be alone in this damn place. I started for the side and pulled mysel...
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The diaphragm finally drives them apart, or is it really about the diaphragm? Neil is obsessed with the idea that someday Brenda is destined to leave him, thus every signal is acutely observed, and his emotion is forever reserved, in case he might really ge...
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From the way Julie and Mr. Patimkin were laughing now, out on the court, no problem could ever have seemed less universal; but, of course, it was universal for Brenda, more than that, cosmic—it made every cashmere sweater a battle with her mother, and her ...
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Love: “ but suddenly I was sure that when I left the water Brenda would be gone. I'd be alone in this damn place. I started for the side and pulled myself up and ran to the chairs and Brenda was there and I kissed her.” “That's it, Brenda. Please, no mor...
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"Religion was a lie that he had recognized early in life, and he found all religions offensive, considered their superstitious folderol meaningless, childish, couldn't stand the complete unadaultness -- the baby talk and the righteousness and the sheep, the...
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2 有用 芝麻糊糊大尾巴 2014-09-10 08:56:46
后面的几个短篇比【再见,哥伦布】严肃,但都是宗教主题,说教意味有点浓。同名的中篇,算是青春文学。年轻人总是通过认识爱情,来认识自己对生活的态度。
0 有用 念晓 2021-07-12 10:57:51
只读完了Goodbye Columbus一篇,但懒得看完了,无耻地马克一个读过。实在不知道怎么描述,文笔浪漫睿智又迷人,但男主人公行为叫人大喊无语, gaslighting 大师。A summer fling between an insecure, self-doubted yet self-absorbed young philosophy graduate, and wealthy, pre... 只读完了Goodbye Columbus一篇,但懒得看完了,无耻地马克一个读过。实在不知道怎么描述,文笔浪漫睿智又迷人,但男主人公行为叫人大喊无语, gaslighting 大师。A summer fling between an insecure, self-doubted yet self-absorbed young philosophy graduate, and wealthy, pretty , simple-minded college girl. He fancied her shallowness and loathed her shallowness. Neil’ manipulation over Brenda is horrendous. (展开)
0 有用 尽倾江海里 2023-10-05 21:34:13 北京
【当代美国小说】 The title story ✔️ Topics covered: eroticism; social classification and distinction; Jewish identity; commodity culture. A failed love in an electric, erotic, yet ephemeral summer. Life calls... 【当代美国小说】 The title story ✔️ Topics covered: eroticism; social classification and distinction; Jewish identity; commodity culture. A failed love in an electric, erotic, yet ephemeral summer. Life calls us, and anxiously if not nervously we walk out into the world. As the sun is rising on the first day of New Year, we have plenty of time for work. (展开)
0 有用 ayourway 2010-02-23 16:12:48
犹太人在美国的不同生活状态
0 有用 ubirus 2020-04-24 06:23:40
我喜欢Neil在教堂的祈祷,他问what is it I love, Lord?很难讲究竟谁在掌控谁,最后的分手又是不是早有居心命中注定。最美的一幕是第4章Brenda和Neil轮流游泳,“if I stayed away too long she would not be there when I returned.” 这种对生命和爱情的不安太惊艳,于是皮格马利翁的雕像有了生命。