Letters between a father and a son
奈保尔家书
书名解读
Letters Between A Father And A Son
《傅雷家书》
《奈保尔家书》
内容概要
A touching look into the heart and family
of one of America's greatest poets.
As a literary portrait of a father and son,
little can match the eloquence
and honesty of this collection of letters,
written by Allen Ginsberg and his father,
Louis, spanning the years 1944 to 1976.
讲解
语言点
touching
touch 接触，触摸
don't touch me
touch 感动，打动
touching
moving
It's a touching movie.
match 敌的过，匹敌
The girl has beauty that could never be matched.
match 相配
The coat matches the dress.
span 跨越
A marriage than spanned 40 years.
The bridge spans the gorges.
Their correspondence is filled with affection, respect,
and a healthy dose of argumentative zeal
they debate every major political
and artistic issue that faced America
in over three decades of extraordinary change.
But the letters also tell of a strong bond of intimacy
and affection between the two,
revealing just how crucial
that closeness was to the development
of Allen Ginsberg's art.
讲解
语言点
be filled with
fill 装满，灌满
be filled with
The bottle is filled with water.
full
be full of
The bottle is full of water.
关键詞
Dear vido, University College, High School,
West Indies, New York, Oxford University,
West Indian, British Council, Caribbean Voices,
Oxford February, Port of Spain, Oxford January,
The Adventures of Gurudeva, Indian Commissioner,
Oxford April, Oxford March, Oxford Tory,
Sangre Grande, Ashmolean Museum,
Carnival Queen, Oxford July, Sunday Express,
Sunday Guardian, Trinidad Guardian
语言点
high school 高中
幼儿园 kindergarten
小学 elementary school / primary school
初中 junior high school
高中 senior high school
express 快递，快速的
快报
It's an express train.
ＥＭＳ 特快邮政服务
express mail service
精彩点评
Writing to his eldest son Vidia in Oxford in 1950,
Seepersad Naipaul observed:
"Your letters are charming in their spontaneity.
If you could write me letters about things
and people--especially people--at Oxford,
I could compile them in a book:
Letters between a Father and Son
or My Oxford Letters.
讲解
Nearly fifty years later,
the father's desire has been fulfilled by the son
with the publication of VS Naipaul's Letters
between a Father and Son.
The collection covers the period
between Naipaul's departures from his native Trinidad
in 1950 to study at Oxford,
to the untimely death of his father
in 1953 at the age of 47.
Alongside the letters between father and son
are those between Naipaul and his older sister,
Kamla, a student at the Benares Hindu University in India,
who is advised by her 17-year-old brother
to watch your personal effects carefully;
the Indians are a thieving lot.
讲解
At the heart of the book lies Naipaul's undergraduate life
at Oxford and his father's deeply moving support for his son,
as he strives to maintain his own writing career
whilst he watches his son's own literary talent flower.
The minutiae of Naipaul's college life
offers a fascinating account of the genesis of the querulous,
fussy and patrician Naipaul.
Letters are full of stories of Naipaul's
endless rounds of tea parties,
writing for the Oxford journal Isis,
flirting with European women
and endless requests for cigarettes from home.
讲解
But the most revealing
and moving dimension of the collection is the love
and friendship between father and son.
Seepersad both vents his own literary frustrations
upon his son,
whilst at the same time
assuring Naipaul of his own unconditional support:
"I feel so darned cocksure
that I can produce a novel within six months.
if only I had nothing else to do. This is impossible.
But I want to give you this chance."
讲解
Seepersad's sudden death is very affecting,
as is Naipaul's telegraphed response home:
"Everything I owe to him."
This is a deeply revealing collection
of one of the most enigmatic writers of the post-war period,
which offers an absorbing insight
into Naipaul's early fiction,
particularly The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street.
讲解
出版社：浙江文艺出版社
出版日期：2006-1-1
字数：300000