
老学派
Old School
Tobias Wolff · 初版 2003 年
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作为开创风格的回忆录《This Boy's Life》、荣获 PEN/Faulkner Award 的中篇小说《The Barracks Thief》以及被誉为现代经典短篇小说的作者,Tobias Wolff 如今带来了他的首部长篇小说。叙述者一心想融入新英格兰的预科学校,学会了模仿所处圈子的举止神态,同时竭力隐瞒自己的过往。然而在毕业那年,他所获得的一切土崩瓦解,命运也被引向无人能够预料的方向。这所学校的独特魅力根植于文学(Literature),对许多男生而言,这演变成了一场……
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……在汉城掌权。为了达成僵局,它犯下了无数暴行,包括炸平了半个国家(德国惨剧重演),以及对整个村庄使用凝固汽油弹,这是越战的前兆。* 《Old School》- Tobias Wolff 的小说。如果你厌倦了那些陈腐乏味的文字,去读读 Wolff 吧。他是真正在乎遣词造句的人。
…in power in Seoul. It committed countless atrocities to achieve its stalemate, including fire-bombing half the country (Germany redux) and using napalm on whole villages, a foreshadowing of Vietnam. * Old School - A novel by Tobias Wolff. If you're tired of tired prose, try Wolff. He cares about sentences.
……很过瘾)《A Study in Scarlet》- 柯南·道尔(推荐)《Why Gender Matters》- Leonard Sax(推荐;书的大部分内容都基于扎实的科学,不过他确实有一两次走极端了。)《Old School》- Tobias Wolff(推荐;描绘了一个电视尚未普及、高中男生真的会对文学感到狂热的世界)《Infinite Space, Infinite God》- Karina 和 Robert Fabian 编(故事质量……
…enjoyable) A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle (recommended) Why Gender Matters - Leonard Sax (recommended; most of the book is based on good science, but he does go out on a limb a time or two.) Old School - Tobias Wolff (recommended; a world before widespread TV where high school boys actually got excited about literature) Infinite Space, Infinite God - Karina and Robert Fabian editors (story quality…
“阿喀琉斯在战争中失去了挚友,而荷马用六音步长短短格诗行来书写他的悲痛,并未辱没这份哀伤。”——Tobias Wolff,《Old School》
"So did Achilles lose his friend in war, and Homer did no injustice to his grief by writing about it in dactylic hexameters" - Tobias Wolff, Old School