The narrator of Youth, a student in the South Africa of the 1950s, has long been plotting an escape from his native country: from the stifling love of his mother, a father whose failures haunt him, and what he is sure is impending revolution. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, and saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world, wherever that may be, ...
The narrator of Youth, a student in the South Africa of the 1950s, has long been plotting an escape from his native country: from the stifling love of his mother, a father whose failures haunt him, and what he is sure is impending revolution. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, and saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world, wherever that may be, he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art.
Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing. An awkward colonial, a constitutional outsider, he begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting. Set against the background of the 1960s-Sharpeville, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam-Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself. J. M. Coetzee explores a young man's struggle to find his way in the world with tenderness and a fierce clarity.
在库切的青春身上看到了太多自己的影子,终于有人写到青春其实不是“激情”的年代,而是迷茫和心酸的年代啊:他跟我一样想要抛下自己的根远赴他乡,但是异乡也不一定被接受;想找个正经工作支持自己业余的写作和文艺,结果发现工作的琐碎和对思维的改变性在让自己迅速变得无聊;觉得自己过于正经,完全不有趣;对当下的众多文学嗤之以鼻,觉得自己都能写得更好,但就是提不起笔,因为怕失败...突然再也不觉得库切爱的艾略特22...在库切的青春身上看到了太多自己的影子,终于有人写到青春其实不是“激情”的年代,而是迷茫和心酸的年代啊:他跟我一样想要抛下自己的根远赴他乡,但是异乡也不一定被接受;想找个正经工作支持自己业余的写作和文艺,结果发现工作的琐碎和对思维的改变性在让自己迅速变得无聊;觉得自己过于正经,完全不有趣;对当下的众多文学嗤之以鼻,觉得自己都能写得更好,但就是提不起笔,因为怕失败...突然再也不觉得库切爱的艾略特22岁时写的普鲁弗克的情歌是写给中年人的了,完全是写给迷茫的,感觉自己人未到中年已经提前变得琐碎无聊,看到自己的limit,不敢eat a peach,开始带着恐惧思考自己即将变成的无聊的人的年轻人的...(展开)
1 有用 乍浦路88号 2019-10-27 13:17:00
估计每个自认为自己有一点小小的才华,有一点点文艺上的趣味的人,读到这本书时,都会觉得很有共鸣。然而,惨痛的现实是,其实很多人面临的困境和问题可能都是一样的,但只有极少数人最终能成为后来的库切。
0 有用 Moondance 2012-11-19 19:10:55
the mirror or my life
0 有用 黄昏之鸟 2018-02-04 06:24:39
无尽浪漫的幻想,无尽苦闷的现实。青春。敲着代码做着诗人的梦。
0 有用 Decem 穿窗皓月 2022-03-13 22:09:55
在库切的青春身上看到了太多自己的影子,终于有人写到青春其实不是“激情”的年代,而是迷茫和心酸的年代啊:他跟我一样想要抛下自己的根远赴他乡,但是异乡也不一定被接受;想找个正经工作支持自己业余的写作和文艺,结果发现工作的琐碎和对思维的改变性在让自己迅速变得无聊;觉得自己过于正经,完全不有趣;对当下的众多文学嗤之以鼻,觉得自己都能写得更好,但就是提不起笔,因为怕失败...突然再也不觉得库切爱的艾略特22... 在库切的青春身上看到了太多自己的影子,终于有人写到青春其实不是“激情”的年代,而是迷茫和心酸的年代啊:他跟我一样想要抛下自己的根远赴他乡,但是异乡也不一定被接受;想找个正经工作支持自己业余的写作和文艺,结果发现工作的琐碎和对思维的改变性在让自己迅速变得无聊;觉得自己过于正经,完全不有趣;对当下的众多文学嗤之以鼻,觉得自己都能写得更好,但就是提不起笔,因为怕失败...突然再也不觉得库切爱的艾略特22岁时写的普鲁弗克的情歌是写给中年人的了,完全是写给迷茫的,感觉自己人未到中年已经提前变得琐碎无聊,看到自己的limit,不敢eat a peach,开始带着恐惧思考自己即将变成的无聊的人的年轻人的... (展开)
0 有用 Gingerbreadx 2014-07-16 15:13:55
略压抑