'Brilliant and terrifying' Observer Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. So he has taken the initiative; left the coast; acquired his own shop in a small, grow...
'Brilliant and terrifying' Observer Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. So he has taken the initiative; left the coast; acquired his own shop in a small, growing city in the continent's remote interior and is selling sundries little more than this and that, really to the natives. This spot, this 'bend in the river', is a microcosm of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence: a scene of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation and poverty. And from this rich landscape emerges one of the author's most potent works a truly moving story of historical upheaval and social breakdown. 'Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force. It is a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant brilliance.' Elizabeth Hardwick 'Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for underlying social causes, a Tolstoyan spirit' John Updike
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V·S·奈保尔 作者
长亭
南海出版公司2014版
Luke
译林出版社2002版
百药
南海出版公司2014版
【读品】
译林出版社2002版
万延元年的足球
南海出版公司2014版
0 有用 #Wergenga# 2015-06-22 01:10:42
【2015.02.15-06.22】中间隔断了至少一个多月，现在终于下决心读完了。很多地方还是感觉太深奥读不明白，不过也总有共鸣之处。毕竟我现在也想逃离这个困境啊。
0 有用 朗韵 2022-08-29 18:37:53 广东
为什么作家一定要有同情心？何况奈保尔并非没有，他不是以我们习以为常的方式表露的。奈保尔尖刻，毒辣，以Salim的视角道出了现代人普遍被异化的、displaced的感受；抛开政治历史文化背景不谈，也许每一个人在一生中都有一次或数次这样的机会，体验那种虽生犹死的无力感与微茫感。
0 有用 silentcape 2017-10-11 10:24:30
一个自认为是欧洲人的印度人对非洲人的感悟。。。。
0 有用 曼彻斯特的太阳 2012-10-29 22:53:14
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become noting, have no place in it.
0 有用 朗韵 2022-08-29 18:37:53 广东
为什么作家一定要有同情心？何况奈保尔并非没有，他不是以我们习以为常的方式表露的。奈保尔尖刻，毒辣，以Salim的视角道出了现代人普遍被异化的、displaced的感受；抛开政治历史文化背景不谈，也许每一个人在一生中都有一次或数次这样的机会，体验那种虽生犹死的无力感与微茫感。
0 有用 silentcape 2017-10-11 10:24:30
一个自认为是欧洲人的印度人对非洲人的感悟。。。。
0 有用 #Wergenga# 2015-06-22 01:10:42
【2015.02.15-06.22】中间隔断了至少一个多月，现在终于下决心读完了。很多地方还是感觉太深奥读不明白，不过也总有共鸣之处。毕竟我现在也想逃离这个困境啊。
0 有用 曼彻斯特的太阳 2012-10-29 22:53:14
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become noting, have no place in it.