书籍 Where Angels Fear to Tread的封面

Where Angels Fear to Tread

E. M. Forster

出版时间

2008-02-26

ISBN

9780141441450

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

A wonderful story of questioning, disillusionment, and conversion, Where Angels Fear to Tread tells the story of a prim English family’s encounter with the foreign land of Italy. When attractive, impulsive English widow Lilia marries Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior, her snobbish former in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval. But their expedition to face the uncouth foreigner takes an unexpected turn when they return to Italy under tragic circumstances intending to rescue Lilia and Gino’s baby.

Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 diff...

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用户评论
释然
表示福斯特早期的作品太狗血了
somewhat depressing, but awesome
福斯特笔下的讽刺是温和的。他的长处是让笔下的人物不断对话(有点啰嗦),来推进人物性格和心理上的变化。小说的局限性也很明显,当时的作者就像自己笔下描述的Philip一样 "without passion, look on life as a spectacle, don't enter it, only find it funny or beautiful".
前半部分维多利亚的气质太强了,福斯特感觉像是被简奥斯汀附身了一样。关于阶级和文化问题的讨论简直就是后期几本书的“雏形”。
朗读者:Stephen Fry。总觉得是个喜剧,结果却是悲剧……
很少有这么短篇幅的小说能让我给五星🌟 but I absolutely, genuinely adore this one! Although I can hardly connect the author of ’Howards End’ with this one, knowing exactly that they were penned by the same. 很难想象这本居然是Forster的debut novel... It was witty, lively, full of surprises, and also, I don’t quite know how to put it, but I think - ‘spontaneous’ is the word.
从荒诞走到现实
我的生活必须在我所在之地。
读完也没对意大利形成任何完整的印象,只觉得混乱。所谓蕴含混乱中的神圣,也只有Phillip这种「身在世外」的人能感受到,可惜他最后也被卷入混乱之中,被打了两次,好可怜😭