E•M•福斯特(Edward Morgan Forster,1879—1970),英国著名小说家、散文家和批评家,著名的人道主义者,毕业于剑桥大学国王学院,后被母校聘为荣誉研究员。主要作品有长篇小说《天使不敢涉足的地方》(1905)、《最漫长的旅程》(1907)、《看得见风景的房间》(1908)、《霍华德庄园》(1910)、《莫瑞斯》(创作于1913—1914年,1971年作者逝世后出版)、《印度之行》(1924);两部短篇小说集《天国公共马车》(1911)和《永恒的瞬间》(1928),后合为《福斯特短篇小说集》(1947);以及广受好评的小说评论专著《小说面面观》(1927,原为在剑桥大学的系列演讲)。
E•M•福斯特(Edward Morgan Forster,1879—1970),英国著名小说家、散文家和批评家,著名的人道主义者,毕业于剑桥大学国王学院,后被母校聘为荣誉研究员。主要作品有长篇小说《天使不敢涉足的地方》(1905)、《最漫长的旅程》(1907)、《看得见风景的房间》(1908)、《霍华德庄园》(1910)、《莫瑞斯》(创作于1913—1914年,1971年作者逝世后出版)、《印度之行》(1924);两部短篇小说集《天国公共马车》(1911)和《永恒的瞬间》(1928),后合为《福斯特短篇小说集》(1947);以及广受好评的小说评论专著《小说面面观》(1927,原为在剑桥大学的系列演讲)。
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)
"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?" (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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25 有用 domhm 2019-04-23 18:57:21
关于马拉巴尔山洞,用Naipaul的一句话解释:印度是虚悬在时间之上的国家。
21 有用 丛林宜歌 2017-04-14 10:51:06
打了三天点滴看完印度之行的三个部分:伊斯兰教清真寺(凉季)-佛教石窟(热季)-印度教神庙(雨季),有一种美学意义上的工整,囊括了殖民地时期印度不同的阶层、宗教、男和女,扎实且洞悉人心,对于比日常经验巨大得多的超验感受亦有着笔,却并不耽于神秘。爱比观点更重要,剥离掉民族、宗教的壳,有什么比两个个体之间坦诚相见的爱情/友情更值得追求?
1 有用 Combray 2018-12-16 13:14:35
民族认同、文化冲突、宇宙背景下的人类困境
1 有用 Dimmesdale 2019-06-16 20:15:34
太好了。政治、殖民主义、种族问题都不是我读到的重点,作者关注的是人的内心世界,写出了人与人之间建立亲密关系的可能,(到底可能吗?毕竟“我们的人生大多都枯燥乏味”)还有生活的错综复杂,甚至能和自己当下的生活一一对应。
55 有用 滋酥 2017-09-09 14:51:59
「生活的绝大部分都是如此枯燥乏味,根本就不值得一说,那些将其描绘得趣味盎然的书籍和言论,全都是不得已的夸大其词,无非是为了证明其自身存在的合法性。蛰伏在工作或是社会义务的蚕茧中,人类灵魂大部分时间都处于休眠状态,虽能记录下欢欣和痛苦的不同,却绝不像我们假装的那般活跃警醒」