THE EYE OF THE STORM

Book ID/图书代码： 01370508B21583

English Summary/英文概要： In the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, three nurses, as housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her son and daughter convene at her deathbed. But, in death as in life, Elizabeth remains a destructive force on those who surround her.
The Eye of the Storm is a savage exploration of family relationships - and the sharp undercurrents of love and hate, comedy and tragedy, which define them.
’Kafka’s letters to Felice, written without the faintest idea that they would be published, read like a well-constructed novel - a somewhat harrowing one’ Anthony Powell

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《风暴眼》是1973年诺贝尔文学奖获得者怀特的代表作，奠定了他文学巨匠的地位。悉尼一座豪华的别墅里，镶着银太阳的宽大的花梨木床上，躺着年迈、垂死的大农场主遗孀伊莉莎白·亨特。护士、管家、医生、律师在周围穿梭、忙碌，多年未露面的一双儿女也长途跋涉地赶来，大家各怀鬼胎。小说以病床为中心，向四方辐射开去，在围绕钱财而展开的尔虞我诈的明争暗斗中，将笔触深入到人物的内心世界，运用心理分析和意识流的手法，揭示了人世间普遍存在的精神和情感危机，探索了人与人之间隔阂、冷漠和敌对的原因，提出了有关人的生存价值和人生追求的重大问题。作者在书中采用了枝蔓式的立体交叉结构，以亨特太太生命垂危到下葬这一时段内的活动为故事框架，通过她的内心独白和自由联想，既叙述了她享乐放荡而又充满不幸的一生，也描绘了她经历过的世事风云和接触过的种种人物。(JD)

Awards/获奖情况：他以史诗般的和擅长于刻画人物心理的叙事艺术，把一个新的大陆介绍进文学领域。　　——瑞典学院

很难用语言来描绘《风暴眼》的宏伟、睿智，以及对人类迷惘的忠实写照。一部成熟而优美的作品，每一段都值得细细品味。　　——《纽约时报书评》

Nobel prize winner Patrick White is - whether you like it or not and liking is always the least of his concerns - an admirable writer who usually deals with recalcitrant materials, here at their most defiant. For this long, representational, acutely detailed novel spends some 600 pages dealing with that still moment in time when the purchase on life is slipping away - an 86 year-old woman who has had a stroke and whose main show of vitality is in the gritting of her gums or the wetting of her bed. She is Elizabeth Hunter, attended by three nurses, a doctor, a solicitor, and a staff including a cook who sometimes dances for her. And now from other parts of the world her son Basil (Sir) and daughter Dorothy come to see her; thus from the vanishing margins of Mrs. Hunter’s life we pass into their raddled middle age where hope is equally irretrievable - Dorothy had married an elderly French prince to whom and to whose life she has always been unsuited; Basil had been a dazzling actor now finding a drink more available than a part in a play. Both had never loved the beautiful, imposing, greedy and strong-willed woman who had been Elizabeth and all of them go fossicking in the past remembering triumphs here, failures there. All of it is splendidly noticed with moments of real wit and cosmopolitan worldliness ("Every serious German I ever came across fell back on quoting from Goethe in a crisis") but humanity is at a premium. In the end one realizes that it is not death but lovelessness which is the bleakest terminus ahead.---Kirkus Reviews

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About the Author/作者介绍： 帕特里克·怀特（1912－1990），澳大利亚小说家、剧作家，1973年获诺贝尔文学奖。著有《人类之树》、《福斯》、《坚固的曼陀罗》、《活体解剖者》、《风暴眼》等长篇小说和剧本《撒尔沙季节》、《快乐的灵魂》、《秃山之夜》等。

怀特的作品明显为神秘主义、象征主义和现代心理分析学说所影响。他善于运用意识流的手法，大跨度地将情节与人物内心活动编织在一起，细致而深刻地描绘人物的内在世界。他的小说大多篇幅浩瀚、用词冷僻。瑞典学院评价他为“一位社会批评家，正如一切名副其实的真正作家一样，他主要通过写人来批评社会”。

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May, 1912 - 30 September, 1990) was an Australian author who was widely regarded as a major English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays. His fiction freely employs shifting narrative vantage points and a stream of consciousness technique. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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