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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1 有用 七七|烂柯人bot 2014-05-13 10:52:30
这里没有印度,只有一个人与人之间性格、文化、宗教碰撞的场域
1 有用 今夜无人入眠 2013-07-15 11:22:47
说真的,一个人怎么可能在世界上对所遇到的一切悲戚之事都伤心呢?又怎么可能对人类,对动植物,甚至对石头所忍受的痛苦都表示难过呢?人的灵魂常常在很短的时间内就疲倦了,但又常常害怕失掉确实理解了的一点东西,灵魂往往返回到受习惯或者时机支配的那个永久的命运中去,在那儿遭受苦难的折磨。
1 有用 马西嘿嘿嘿 2010-12-14 23:36:40
百转千回,萦绕许久。
1 有用 Mignon松弛地 2011-01-16 12:26:54
現在很少讀真正的小說了,但卻讀了EM福斯特兩本書,《印度之行》是他最成熟的作品,翻譯也相當用心。此書表達了很多:比如印度與英國的關係,印度知識分子的定位,人與人之間的溝通,對人生的回顧等等。
0 有用 无根树 2011-03-20 17:28:36
只看了开头,有机会再读