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Julian Barnes 《回憶的餘燼》The Sense of an Ending

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The Sense of an Ending

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2011

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they navigated the girl drought of gawky adolescence together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit.
Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a marriage, a calm divorce. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. Read More ›

【愛讀書】 《回憶的餘燼》
朱利安.拔恩斯著,梁永安譯,天下文化出版
第一人稱敘述者安東尼回憶大學時期分手的女友,與他高中時代早慧的摯友艾卓安交往,其後艾卓安選擇自殺,拒絕人生這件「不求自來的禮物」;情感受創的安東尼則隨波逐流長大,變老,對人生「照單全收」,直到暮年已至,一封出於己手、被刻意抹忘的信件提醒了一切,且一步步揭露那「記憶的不完美和文件的不充分之交接處」……朱利安.拔恩斯(Julian Barnes,1946-)獲曼布克獎長篇《回憶的餘燼》,篇幅輕巧,卻能以趣味橫生的夾敘夾議方式,觸碰歷史、記憶、愛情、人生等大命題。全書「第一部」對中學課堂、青澀戀情和年輕的死的描寫,讀來像尋常啟蒙小說,但作者所企圖的啟蒙時刻當在「第二部」:人生看似大勢底定、記憶的佐證人紛紛退場之際,借用心理偵探技巧,寫活人們臨老仍未熄暗的欲望與悔恨,以及,最重要的――我們是否曾因一時軟弱,改寫他人的人生?伊恩.麥克尤恩在《贖罪》裡藉由大時代悲劇演繹過一次,朱利安.拔恩斯再次證明:即便看似和平的生活,總有什麼無可挽回之事,以罪責之名,向你靜靜索討著。

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