THE MASTER
Book ID/图书代码: 11701204B08255
English Summary/英文概要: Like Michael Cunningham in The Hours, Colm Tóibín captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of a man born into one of America’s first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.
In stunningly resonant prose, Tóibín captures the loneliness and the hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of this portrait is riveting.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 小說以美國小說家亨利.詹姆斯(Henry James,1843-1916)創作出《慾望之翼》前的五年低潮期為切入點,大膽剖析他的內心世界。1895 年,詹姆斯因劇作在倫敦首演時慘敗,從此沉陷於痛苦和失望之中,以及同性戀情所帶來的困擾。
托賓細膩地從詹姆斯的性格中尋找戲劇性的元素,在《大師》中虛構了詹姆斯在19世紀最後五年時光,揣想其坎坷的藝術心靈,用溫煦的文筆描繪詹姆斯早慧、善感且壓抑的性格,並在驚世創作與迷惘的的內心世界作最完美的聯繫。在敘事之外,對亨利.詹姆斯步入中年以後渴望孤獨但又害怕寂寞的心理刻畫得入木三分,幾可亂真。(VL)
Awards/获奖情况:Finalist for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
About the Author/作者介绍: 愛爾蘭作家Colm Tóibín(柯姆.托賓)生於1955年,曾擔任記者,現為專職作家。1999年曾以The Blackwater Lightship入圍布克獎,2004年作品《大師》(THE MASTER),甫出版便立刻引起各界注目,被譽為2004年美國書評人的最愛,也入圍英國布克獎,並獲得了紐約時報年度十大好書。
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