...There are many occasions on which a No is the only possible answer and such a No clarifies nothing, is useless. It's the answer one would get whether it was true or not. A Yes can be useful sometimes, but a No almost never, especially when the subject under discussion is something ugly or shameful or when it's a matter of getting what you want at all costs or of saving your skin. It's of no value in itself. Accepting it is an act of faith, and the faith is ours not that of the person saying No. Besides, faith is a fickle, fragile thing: it stumbles, recovers, grows stronger, cracks. And is lost. Belief can never be trusted. (查看原文)
...it's impossible to recover the inexperience of your experienced youth once you've moved on considerably; once you've understood something, it's impossible to not understand what you once didn't understand, ignorance doesn't return, not even when you want to describe a time during which you either basked in or were the victim of ignorance, and never trust anyone who tells you something with a falsely innocent look on his face, feigning the lost innocence of childhood or adolescence or youth, or who adopts the gaze — the icy, forzen gaze — of the child he no longer is, and the same is true of the old man who speaks out of the years of his maturity rather than out of the old age that now dominates his entire vision of the world, his knowledge of other people and of himself; even the dead —... (查看原文)
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0 有用 抱一君 2020-01-01 22:44:04
叙述过程的控制，有序导入情感支配。
11 有用 悦然 2020-03-17 17:50:36
这里依然是马利亚斯的独家配方：离题、偷窥和乱伦。希区柯克和莎士比亚在南欧的嫡亲传人。它无疑更适合那些马利亚斯的资深读者，像是来到常去的公园里，只想在固定的长椅上坐一会儿，看看熟悉的风景，听听亲切的鸟鸣。某种意义上说，马利亚斯的困境和村上春树相似，那就是他们的主人公停在了某个年纪，无法继续成长，变成一个经历沧桑，失去情欲的老年人。
0 有用 ROY 2023-01-24 14:06:21 广东
人，要如何与恶共同生活？冷漠拒绝、偷情偷欢、自我了断、都过去了……没想到几条线索都能在最后交织出花样，太厉害了。
0 有用 司空图 2023-06-21 22:12:38 湖南
絮絮叨叨的第一人称看得我昏昏欲睡，主线最后还能绕回来却已无悬念
2 有用 四六酱 2022-10-03 18:19:40 北京
评分在3星和4星之间游走。马里亚斯的文笔是好的，出于阅读和写作经验，他对多层面社会症状——尤其是经历过独裁统治和战争创伤的社会——的观察和剖析都很深刻，深刻到几乎每页都有能划线出来发到票圈豆瓣或者红🍠等社交媒体，用来或警醒自己或影射现实或蓄意装B的长短名句，但是他的整体书写太过短小干净，纵然对人物线的把控非常精妙，但对叙事的构架和对时代以及地域的延伸都不够宽广，甚至还依托着西方语言特有的复杂句式来... 评分在3星和4星之间游走。马里亚斯的文笔是好的，出于阅读和写作经验，他对多层面社会症状——尤其是经历过独裁统治和战争创伤的社会——的观察和剖析都很深刻，深刻到几乎每页都有能划线出来发到票圈豆瓣或者红🍠等社交媒体，用来或警醒自己或影射现实或蓄意装B的长短名句，但是他的整体书写太过短小干净，纵然对人物线的把控非常精妙，但对叙事的构架和对时代以及地域的延伸都不够宽广，甚至还依托着西方语言特有的复杂句式来拉长故事及其中蕴含的哲理，用陈老师的话说：“原本并不奥妙的东西，用一种繁复、扭曲的句式写出来，真是让人生厌啊。” (展开)