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《麵紗》:毛姆有爭議的作品!女性精神覺醒經典的讀本!愛、幻滅、生死、背叛、彆離……
愛到分離纔相遇的淒美故事!毛姆剖析人性三大力作:《刀鋒》《麵紗》《人性的枷鎖》。同名電影《麵紗》好評如潮。
內容簡介
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-
starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love. The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.
容貌嬌美而又愛慕虛榮的英國女子凱蒂,為瞭避免自己變成一位老姑娘,接受瞭生性孤僻的醫生瓦爾特·費恩的求婚。她離開瞭上世紀20年代倫敦浮華而空虛的社交圈,隨瓦爾特遠赴神秘的東方殖民地--香港。
對婚姻感到不滿和無趣,凱蒂開始悄悄與令她芳心搖動的香港助理布政司查理·唐生偷情。瓦爾特發現妻子的不忠後,孤注一擲,開始瞭他奇特而可怕的報復計劃:凱蒂必須隨他前往遙遠的中國內地,去平息一場正瘋狂流行的霍亂瘟疫。在異國美麗卻凶險的環境中,他們經曆瞭在英國傢鄉的舒適生活中無法想象和體驗的情感波瀾……
在愛情、背叛與死亡的漩渦中掙紮的凱蒂,親曆瞭幻想破滅與生死離彆之後,終將生活的麵紗從她的眼前漸漸揭去,從此踏上瞭不悔的精神成長之路。
作者簡介
William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965
W.S.毛姆(William Somerset Maugham),1874-1965,英國著名小說傢,劇作傢,散文傢。曾先後就讀於坎特伯雷的國王學校和德國海德堡大學,後到倫敦聖托馬斯醫院學醫,並取得外科醫師資格。
他的首部長篇小說《蘭貝斯的麗莎》於1897年發錶。1915年,他的傑作《人性的枷鎖》問世,1919年《月亮與六便士》的齣版確立瞭他作為長篇小說傢的地位。他的其他著作有長篇小說《刀鋒》、《麵紗》,旅行劄記《在中國屏風上》,及各種散文、短篇小說集等。1903-1933年期間,他創作瞭近30部劇本,深受觀眾歡迎。
毛姆被公認為20世紀在全世界範圍內流行最廣、最受歡迎的英國作傢之一,被譽為“最會講故事的作傢”。他的小說機智、幽默,常在譏諷中潛藏對人性的憐憫與同情。1952年,牛津大學授予他名譽博士學位。1954年,英王授予他“榮譽侍從”的稱號。
精彩書評
一對英國夫婦經曆情感危機之後,來到中國內地的霍亂疫區救治病人與孤兒。上世紀二十年代的貴州湄潭政府缺席,社會鬆散,人情冷漠。小說中“一盤散沙”的慘景至今仍然具有振聾發瞶的力量。
——中國社科院文學研究所所長陸建德
《麵紗》以其悲天憫人的情感關照,以其對道德衝突的敏感解析,以其對人性的尖銳反諷,以其對人類欲望、恐懼和悔恨等內在世界的準確建構,而成為一部藝術的傑作。
——《觀察傢》
迴首現代作傢,毛姆給瞭我最為深刻的影響。
——喬治·奧威爾,《1984》作者
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