The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece-a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged worl...
The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece-a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.
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I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviors, which seemed to know no bounds.
...and there appeared at my window the face I knew to be Sebastian's, but not, as I had formerly seen it, alive and alight with gaiety; he looked at me for a moment with unfocused eyes and then, leaning forward well into the room, he was sick.
"I've just counted them," he said. "There were five each and two over, so I am having the two. I am unaccountably hungry today. I put myself unreservedly in the hands of Dolbear and Goodall, and fell so drugged that I've begun to believe that the whole of yesterday evening was a dream. Please don't ... (查看原文)
“I had no love for Sebastian that morning; he needed it, but I had none to give.” Eventually, no one is responsible for being the one piece of puzzle that completes you, making you better, making you ...“I had no love for Sebastian that morning; he needed it, but I had none to give.” Eventually, no one is responsible for being the one piece of puzzle that completes you, making you better, making you loved. (展开)
2 有用 Ms Cellophane 2020-08-19 13:54:40
以为一个星期能读完的，结果花了半个多月，开头因为那些军事相关的词汇全不懂，看得非常劝退。其实我看到最后也不是特别明白这个家庭悲剧的根源是什么，宗教吗？本身没有宗教信仰的话好像特别难理解这种立意。有些比喻蛮不错的，“不完整的人”、“故人重逢”、“雪崩”、“牵引的线”令人印象深刻。男主爸爸之毒舌也令人难忘。按照最近男人脆弱才迷人的说法Sebastian确实迷人，而且我觉得他就该是Whishaw那个长相... 以为一个星期能读完的，结果花了半个多月，开头因为那些军事相关的词汇全不懂，看得非常劝退。其实我看到最后也不是特别明白这个家庭悲剧的根源是什么，宗教吗？本身没有宗教信仰的话好像特别难理解这种立意。有些比喻蛮不错的，“不完整的人”、“故人重逢”、“雪崩”、“牵引的线”令人印象深刻。男主爸爸之毒舌也令人难忘。按照最近男人脆弱才迷人的说法Sebastian确实迷人，而且我觉得他就该是Whishaw那个长相。可能会再读一遍吧因为感觉虽然体会到那个情绪了但还是不太明白为什么。 (展开)
1 有用 尼加拉西瓜 2018-09-04 22:59:47
原来那句Our naughtiness was high on the catalogue of grave sins是出自这里 我一直以为是from Lolita
0 有用 奇诺. 2022-03-09 21:34:52
当出现大量读不懂的环境描写时我知道又一次跟不上人物心境的起伏了，A说的charm到底是什么，麻木痛苦放弃？Charles唯一一次吐露心声是对着Hooper，人到中年无家无子无爱，结果被一笑置之，在与宗教的角力之中他失去了两个爱人，即便岁月蹉跎但也见证了神迹。十分不理解为什么会用英国红楼梦来推广。
0 有用 LittleSilver 2017-07-06 13:21:44
还记得是大四通过学校图书馆订购的。
0 有用 Laurie 2021-08-22 00:41:25
“I had no love for Sebastian that morning; he needed it, but I had none to give.” Eventually, no one is responsible for being the one piece of puzzle that completes you, making you better, making you ... “I had no love for Sebastian that morning; he needed it, but I had none to give.” Eventually, no one is responsible for being the one piece of puzzle that completes you, making you better, making you loved. (展开)