老魔鬼
The old devils
Kingsley Amis · 初版 1986 年
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“当 Alun Weaver 和他当年名噪一时的大美人妻子 Rhiannon 搬进一个安静的养老社区时，他们发现周围住满了昔日的好友。”——摘自磁带盒封面说明。
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The old devils
Kingsley Amis · 初版 1986 年
“当 Alun Weaver 和他当年名噪一时的大美人妻子 Rhiannon 搬进一个安静的养老社区时，他们发现周围住满了昔日的好友。”——摘自磁带盒封面说明。
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……故事？以我的经验来看，布克奖得主往往都是些冒充高雅艺术的做作垃圾。比如：伊恩·麦克尤恩的《阿姆斯特丹》（Amsterdam，1998）、本·奥克瑞的《饥饿的路》（The Famished Road，1991）、金斯利·艾米斯的《老恶魔》（The Old Devils，1986）。虽然普利策小说奖只颁给美国人，但其得奖名单在配不配得上得奖这点上要合理得多。
…story? Booker winners, in my experience have been often pretentious garbage masquerading as high art. Examples: Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam (1998) Ben Okri’s The Famished Road (1991) Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils (1986) While the Pulitzer Prize for fiction is American only, the list of winners is far more justifiable as prize-worthy.
金斯利·艾米斯的《老恶魔》（The Old Devils）里有一句话，大意是说：“阿伦的生活越来越变成这样：别人用听写般的速度，把他原本就知道的事情讲给他听。”我小学时得到的一本关于地图的书把这一切都阐述得很清楚。每个……
There is a line in Kingsley Amis's The Old Devils running something like "More and more, Alun's life was coming to consist of being told what he knew, at dictation speed." A book on maps that I got in elementary school laid this all out clearly. Every…
多谢。我在金斯利·艾米斯的小说《老恶魔》（The Old Devils）里看到过对它的引用，但当时太懒了没去查。
Thanks. I saw a reference to it in Kingsley Amis's novel The Old Devils, but was too idle to look it up.
书店：早在 1980 年代，里根国家机场（那时还只叫国家机场）有一家极棒的书店。我记得自己是在那儿买了瓦西里·阿克肖诺夫（Vasily Aksyonov）的《灼伤》（The Burn），好像也是在那儿买了金斯利·艾米斯的《老恶魔》（The Old Devils）。而且我记得密尔沃基机场的某条登机廊桥通道上居然还有一家二手书店。
Bookstores: back in the 1980s, Reagan National (then just National) had an excellent bookstore. I know I picked up Vasily Askyonov's The Burn there, and I think I picked up Kingsley Amis's The Old Devils there. And I believe that Milwaukee actually had a used bookstore on one concourse.
另外，我读《幸运的吉姆》（Lucky Jim）已经是好久以前的事了，但我不记得里面提过威尔士或威尔士人。艾米斯的《老恶魔》（The Old Devils）则是以威尔士为背景，对这两者都极尽调侃之能事。
Also, it has been a very long time since I read Lucky Jim, but I don't remember it mentioning Wales or the Welsh. Amis's The Old Devils is set in Wales, and makes a certain amount of sport of both.