Flaubert's Parrot
内容简介
Which of two stuffed parrots was the inspiration for one of Flaubert's greatest stories? Why did the master keep changing the colour of Emma Bovary's eyes? And why should it matter so much to Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor haunted by a private secret? In "Flaubert's Parrot", Julian Barnes spins out a multiple mystery of obsession and betrayal (both scholarly and romantic) and creates an exuberant enquiry into the ways in which art mirrors life and then turns around to shape it.
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作者简介
Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer of postmodernism in literature. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize--- Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005), and won the prize for The Sense of an Ending (2011). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.
Following an education at the City of London School and Merton College, Oxford, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. Subsequently, he worked as a literary editor and film critic. He now writes full-time. His brother, Jonathan Barnes, is a philosopher specialized in Ancient Philosophy.
He lived in London with his wife, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh, until her death on 20 October 2008.
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读书文摘
1846年，居斯塔夫曾怀疑自己是否有能力写出有出版价值的东西，他宣称：“假如有天我真的现身，那一定是全副武装。”
1836年 在特鲁维尔结识了一位徳国音乐出版商的妻子埃莉萨・施莱辛格，对她一见“倾”心。这份感情的影响一直持续到青少年时代的结。她对他极为和蔼和关爱；他们在接下来的四十年里一直保持联系。回想往事，他很欣慰她并未接受这份爱恋：“幸福就像天花。得太早，会毁掉你的身体。”
我并不太喜欢巧合。它们有些诡异： 那一瞬间，你觉得自己一定是生活在上帝操纵的有序宇宙中，他本人在背后监督，还扔给你一些含混的线索，帮你感受万物宿命的存在。我更宁愿认为世界是混沌而任性的，它的疯狂既永恒又短暂——去感觉人类无比确定的无知、残忍和愚昧。
让巧合合法化的一种方式，当然，就是管它们叫反讽。聪明人就是这么干的。反讽毕竟是现代模式，是寻求共鸣和机智的酒友。谁会反对它呢？但有时我心想，最富于机智和共鸣的反讽，难道不就是外观漂亮、内有底蕴的巧合吗？
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