Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die ofHeartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to benear his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described plant visionary. While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marria...
Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die ofHeartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to benear his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described plant visionary. While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from bliss to breakdown. Imagining that a settled existence will end his anguish, Benn ties the knot again, opening the door to a flood of new torments. As Kenneth grapples with his own problems involving his unusual lady-friend Treckie, the two men try to figure out why gifted and intelligent people invariably find themselves knee-deep in the garbage of a personal life.
The pure soul unconsciously he had, the rapport he struggled for, the complex and mortal life he couldn’t comprehend, the language that normal people tried to interpret and failed, all these relating ...The pure soul unconsciously he had, the rapport he struggled for, the complex and mortal life he couldn’t comprehend, the language that normal people tried to interpret and failed, all these relating to Benn seems a little bit genteel and mentalism-oriented, even if he is a scientist. Certainly his survival measure was to plunge into his lichens. (展开)
0 有用 成富贵 2022-03-22 05:02:56
The pure soul unconsciously he had, the rapport he struggled for, the complex and mortal life he couldn’t comprehend, the language that normal people tried to interpret and failed, all these relating ... The pure soul unconsciously he had, the rapport he struggled for, the complex and mortal life he couldn’t comprehend, the language that normal people tried to interpret and failed, all these relating to Benn seems a little bit genteel and mentalism-oriented, even if he is a scientist. Certainly his survival measure was to plunge into his lichens. (展开)
0 有用 别 2022-06-08 13:06:55
实在看不下去,后来去看了译版
0 有用 加一份奥利奥碎 2020-03-20 22:07:22
如果人人都重视情感,将会有更多人死于心碎。
0 有用 ZS 2012-01-27 09:54:56
TT
0 有用 ???? 2022-03-02 14:22:13
废话文学一种,不如去看 Woody Allen