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First,let's see an excerpt.
'I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place.Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings,but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.They are strangers in their birthplace,and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played,remain but a place of passage.They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known.Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent.to which they may attach themselves.Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history.Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he sought,and he wll settle amid scenes that he has never seen before,among men he has never known,as though they were familiar to him from his birth.Here at last he finds rest.'
I'd admitted it was the paragraph that seduced me to read through the The Moon and Sixpence.Actually,if you have read these lines,there is hardly any need to complete the book.Personally speaking,I don't quite fancy the narrator,into whom Maugham put too much 'himself'.Maybe Strickland represented other side of the author-who knows.But those prolix descriptions of people of no importance—some kind of walks-on,I'd say,dominate the whole novel.He just took the trouble to depict any characters,which bored me a lot.
I t seemed that Maugham knew little about an real talent-their conflict,their abyss,-so that he'd rather detour.He simply put a Charisma as some freak,someone who has completely no idea about the conventions.Of course,I should say such creature may exist,however,of what significance they exist?Maugham knew it too well,that 'I'(the narrator) appeared slightly ironic in the book,who at first didn't acknowledge Strickland's gift,nor despise him.To me it was simply a pose,that the author was trying to be cool with his hero.It is good,cos Maugham was too earnest to pretend any.That's why it kept me reading continuously until the end.
Read the paragraph again,and leave the book alone.
来自: 豆瓣 |
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