内容简介
1970年夏天，一个20岁的书呆子——文学系大学生基思和他的朋友们在意大利的一个城堡里度假，此时正值新思潮风起云涌、如火如荼之际，在这史无前例的历史性时刻，新思潮充斥着每个人的脑海，女孩子们表现得像男孩子一样，而男孩子则像他们自己，基思周旋于三个女人之间，而他的朋友们也都陷入了混乱难当的泥淖中，个个心醉神迷、本性昭显而又无所释怀、痛苦难耐，可是很快他们就发现了一个令人相当不安的事实，那就是在社会秩序的新旧更迭中，总会存留一个涤罪阈限，而这就是曾经为俄国大思想家亚历山大•赫尔岑所描述过的“怀孕的寡妇”——在一个死去和另一个降生之间，会度过混乱、孤寂的长夜。而此刻的基思们正挣扎其间并备受洗礼……
作者简介
马丁•艾米斯（1949-2023），英国当代著名作家。1949年生于牛津文学世家，著名小说家金斯利•艾米斯之子。马丁•艾密斯与伊恩•麦克尤恩、朱利安•巴恩斯并称英国“文坛三巨头”。1974年，艾米斯凭其首作《雷切尔文件》（1973）摘得毛姆文学奖，并被誉为“文学天才”。此后艾米斯凭借一系列风格多变的作品步入文坛巅峰：《金钱——绝命书》（1984）入选《时代》杂志“一百部最佳英语小说”之列；《时间箭——罪行的本质》（1991）和《黄狗》（2003）先后入围布克奖提名。马丁•艾米斯在创作上深受卡夫卡、纳博科夫、乔伊斯等大师影响，在写实的手法上融入了意识流、黑色幽默以及浓郁的魔幻主义风格，被形容为“蘸着迷药水书写的文坛大师”。
Content introduction
In the summer of 1970, a nerdy 20-year-old literature student named Keith and his friends are vacationing in a castle in Italy at the height of a new trend that, for the first time in history, is flooding everyone's minds, with girls acting like boys and boys acting like themselves. As Keith moves between the three women, and his friends are caught up in a tangle of ecstasy, of obvious nature, of unrelenting pain, they soon discover the rather disturbing fact that in the changing of the social order there is always a threshold of cleansing, This is what the great Russian thinker Alexander Herzen once described as a "pregnant widow" - a long night of confusion and solitude between the death of one and the birth of the other. And now the Keithes are struggling and being baptized...
About the author
Martin Amis (1949-2023) was a famous contemporary English writer. He was born in 1949 to an Oxford literary family, the son of the famous novelist Kingsley Amis. Martin Ames, along with Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes, is known as the "Big Three" of British literature. In 1974, Amis won the Maugham Prize for Literature for her first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973), and was hailed as a "literary genius". Amis then rose to the top of the literary world with a series of stylistic works: "Money - The Death Letter" (1984) was included in Time magazine's "100 Best novels in the English Language"; Time's Arrow - The Nature of Crime (1991) and Yellow Dog (2003) were nominated for the Booker Prize. Martin Amis is deeply influenced by Kafka, Nabokov, Joyce and other masters in his creation. He integrates stream of consciousness, black humor and strong magic style in his realistic approach, and is described as "a literary master who writes with fascination potion".
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