AUTHOR, AUTHOR

Book ID/图书代码： 03540004B05208

English Summary/英文概要： Framed by a dramatic and moving account of Henry James’s last illness, Author! Author! begins in the early 1880s, describing James’s friendship with the genial Punch artist, George Du Maurier, and his intimate but problematic relationship with fellow American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson. At the end of the decade Henry, worried by the failure of his books to sell, resolves to achieve fame and fortune as a playwright while Du Maurier diversifies into writing novels. The consequences that ensue mingle comedy, irony, pathos, and suspense.

Thronged with vividly drawn characters Author! Author! presents a fascinating panorama of literary and theatrical life in late Victorian England. But at its heart is a portrait, rendered with remarkable empathy, of a writer who never achieved popular success in his lifetime or resolved his sexual identity, yet wrote some of the greatest novels about love in the English language.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 亨利-詹姆斯是美国小说家，但他后半生住在伦敦，作品也大多以欧洲为背景。本书试图为他画像，着重记叙了他的“中间年代”，他与天才的画家George Du Maurie的友谊，以及他与美国作家Constance Fenimore Woolson之间亲密而纯洁的关系。书中的人名和他们的书信、作品的引文都是真实的，但是他们之间的对话和故事的细节都是作者的虚构。

Awards/获奖情况：Lodge’s (Thinks) meticulously researched but disappointingly tepid "docu-novel" opens in 1915, with Henry James on his death bed, and quickly establishes the context of this take on the great Anglo-American writer’s life: James’s conflicted jealousy about his friend George Du Maurier’s success with the now virtually forgotten novel Trilby, his chaste relationship with the American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolsey, and the fateful evening of January 5, 1895, when his play Guy Domville premiered in London and James was humiliated by the booing from the cheap seats. Why does a man who believes that the theater was noteworthy for "its vulgarity and aesthetic crudity" aspire to be a playwright? For the banal reason that "it was for an author the shortest road to fame and fortune." It may be Lodge’s point that James sublimated his desires for love or sex into a longing for acclaim and wealth, but the James of this novel—the second this year to deal with his theatrical career, after Colm Tóibín’s The Master—is petty, priggish and egocentric in the extreme (his reaction to the apparent suicide of Woolsey: "what he really dreaded was finding some evidence that she had done it on account of him"). Even if this portrayal is accurate—and given the author’s scholarly credentials, there’s no reason to doubt it—it makes for a singularly undramatic story. ---From Publishers Weekly

Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Edgar Allan Poe have fared quite well as the stars of novels dramatizing their lives, and now it’s Henry James’ turn. The great writer is the focus of Colm Toibin’s aptly named novel The Master [BKL Ap 1 04], and here Lodge fictionalizes James’ doomed attempt to shore up his finances by writing plays. The author of such intellectual romps as Therapy (1995) and Thinks (2001), Lodge is primarily a satirist, but he is also a literary critic, a discipline palpable in this expert if slightly awkward tribute. Lodge can’t help but launch into extended biographical and critical disquisitions but then, as though to leaven his erudition, renders his hero a bit too charmingly eccentric. And yet Lodge’s take on James’ theatrical adventures is suspenseful and empathetic, and his re-creation of James’ colorful milieu, including his quirky family, is vivid. Ultimately, Lodge portrays a genius who is aware of both his gifts and shortcomings and who revels in friendships. And, indeed, it is Lodge’s vital interpretations of James’ close ties to the Punch artist turned best-selling writer George du Maurier, and more problematic relationship with the popular American writer Constance Fenimore Woolson, that infuse this smart novel with its satisfyingly piquant insights into a seminal, and persistently enigmatic, literary genius.---Donna Seaman, From Booklist

About the Author/作者介绍： 戴维·洛奇(David Lodge, 1935— )是一位享有世界声誉的英国小说家兼文学批评家。他从1960年发表作品,至今已有11部长篇小说问世,它们被翻译成了25种文字在全球各地出版。《小世界》等作品中译本的出版使他在中国，特别是在中国知识界广为人知。他的小说以机智诙谐的语言、有趣的构思、各种传统和新潮小说技法的灵活运用,受到了包括普通读者、知识分子和批评家在内的广大读者的喜爱。
戴维·洛奇1935年生于伦敦，先后就读于伦敦大学和伯明翰大学，获博士学位。从1960年至1987年一直在伯明翰大学英语系任教。1987年提前退休成为专业作家，但仍为伯明翰大学荣誉教授，并一直担任英国皇家文学会会员。
作为身兼二职的学者型作家，戴维·洛奇总是试图在小说中反映学术界的各种现象。他的最著名的小说几乎都是以知识分子（校园内外的教授与学生）为主要人物，以学术、文化界写作背景的。他的著名的“校园三部曲”可谓这方面的代表，这三部小说——《换位》、《小世界》和《美好的工作》具有互文关系，反映的基本上是与学术界相关的故事。
DAVID LODGE 的作品还包括《治疗》和最近的《思索》等,以及一系列的文学评论,如《小说的艺术》和《写作的技巧》。
DAvid Lodge is the author of ten novels, including Small World and Nice Work, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also the author of several works of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction and The Practice of Writing.

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