《人生的盛宴》主要分为无所不谈、谈古论今、闲情雅趣、人生滋味、文苑勺拾、山海游历、臧否人物这七辑,收录了他的论读书、古书有毒辩、从梁任公的腰说起、孟子说才志气欲、论性灵、我怎样买牙刷、论文艺如何复兴法子、老北京的精神、闲话说东坡等众多作品。林语堂先生的散文其实就是他自身生活的真实写照,在传统文人的一方面,他是个中规中矩的君子;而在现代文化的一方面,他又是一位不折不扣的绅士。他之倡导闲适幽默,其实正是在以“文”养“性”,又复依“性”为“文”,这种纯粹个人的修为,应当说跟一般文学史著述中的所谓背离时局或者帮忙帮闲之类实在没有太大的干系。 《人生的盛宴》是从林语堂大量的中文、英文中译本著作中有关人生、生活、文艺等方面的论著中选编而成的。从这些文章中我们可以较为集中地了解到林语对人生、生活、文艺的见解。
本书是作者的随笔作品集,汇集其发表于《读书》、《上海文学》等的文章,通过“丹东与妓女、艰难的自由伦理”等主题对现代的叙事伦理进行研究。
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo
Novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. The sprawling narrative comprises numerous threads having to do either directly or tangentially with the secret development and deployment of a rocket by the Nazis near the end of World War II. Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop is an American working for Allied Intelligence in London. Agents of the Firm, a clandestine military organization, are investigating an apparent connection between Slothrop's erections and the targeting of incoming V-2 rockets. As a child, Slothrop was the subject of experiments conducted by a Harvard professor who is now a Nazi rocket scientist. Slothrop's quest for the truth behind these implications leads him on a nightmarish journey of either historic discovery or profound paranoia, depending on his own and the reader's interpretation. The novel won the National Book Award for fiction in 1974. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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《人生的盛宴》主要分为无所不谈、谈古论今、闲情雅趣、人生滋味、文苑勺拾、山海游历、臧否人物这七辑,收录了他的论读书、古书有毒辩、从梁任公的腰说起、孟子说才志气欲、论性灵、我怎样买牙刷、论文艺如何复兴法子、老北京的精神、闲话说东坡等众多作品。林语堂先生的散文其实就是他自身生活的真实写照,在传统文人的一方面,他是个中规中矩的君子;而在现代文化的一方面,他又是一位不折不扣的绅士。他之倡导闲适幽默,其实正是在以“文”养“性”,又复依“性”为“文”,这种纯粹个人的修为,应当说跟一般文学史著述中的所谓背离时局或者帮忙帮闲之类实在没有太大的干系。 《人生的盛宴》是从林语堂大量的中文、英文中译本著作中有关人生、生活、文艺等方面的论著中选编而成的。从这些文章中我们可以较为集中地了解到林语对人生、生活、文艺的见解。