豆瓣评分:8.4
电子书下载格式:mobi+epub+pdf+txt
作者:IrisMurdoch
出版时间:2003-03
书籍简介:
Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded. "Fertile invention is put to the service of an expansive sense of character; and since the book also has Miss Murdoch's usual narrative energy and intellectual weight, it is the best novel she has written in years." ("The New York Times Book Review")
作者简介:
艾丽丝•默多克（Iris Murdoch，1919—1999）是英国二十世纪最著名的小说家之一, 同时也是位货真价实的哲学家，被誉为 “全英国最聪明的女人”。她的哲学思想深受克尔恺郭尔和萨特的存在主义影响，哲学写作又深受西蒙娜•韦伊与柏拉图的影响，其小说创作致力于探讨善与恶、性关系、道德困境与无意识的力量，以其对于个体内心生活的关注和深入探讨，延续了托尔斯泰、陀思妥耶夫斯基、乔治•爱略特与普鲁斯特等小说大师的伟大传统。默多克共六次进入布克奖短名单，为该奖历史上获得提名最多的作家，并以《大海，大海》夺魁。
