a breathtaking snapshot of postcolonial society 从奈保尔细致却宏大的笔触中看出某些宿命感 记起萨义德对他是有些bitter的 称他是东方主义的帮凶 然而我却觉得他对自己的位置是清楚的 只是无能为力03-15
Gloriousfall
sheer abundance of talent!10-04
日照充足
叙述者的中立:非虚构式的描述,和各阶层之间理性的联系, 人物本身悲观的自省。康拉德式的frame-story也是。唯独有一次中立被打破,在热情之中侵入情人Yvette的思想,揣度她的心意。但在爱情随Rayment的彻底失宠而消失时,salim还能及时抽身回到中立。也只有salim的彻底失根和他对自己失根的悲观认识才能让他如此中立/ big man只存在破碎的故事和二手传闻中,性格完全被抹去,可能只有这样才能让他的身份立场变化无常合法化。无法被定义和描述,无法被限制和治罪(何尝不是现在的big man的作法)04-04
Moondance
三星给文笔……丑恶的灵魂~让人sick09-07
qqc1024
很好 看了200/270 很遗憾没有看完11-16
王黄
A poor life in such a political-economic structure12-22
阿斯帕拉戈斯
the philosophy of ‘carry on’ and ‘escape’08-28
blank
"After all, we make our ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. I would have hidden in my hole and been crippled by sentimentality, doing what I was doing, and doing it well, but always looking for the wailing wall. And I would never have seen the world as the rich place that it is." 03-07
香槟塔
Become the foreigner in the land of one’s birth. 12-04
The narrator is a cool observer, sometimes too reserved, even more so than Nick Carraway. But of course he is part of the world he describes, of that world that’s in between many worlds, many times and many cultures. Africa remains unknown. 08-22
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