《灵与魂的夭亡》内容简介
一出巧妙邪恶的黑色闹剧
一场自甘沉沦的死亡狂欢
六个年轻人聚在伦敦郊区一栋大房子里度周末，来了三个美国客人，于是激起了他们的欲望。他们酗酒无度、放荡不羁，然后又是一连串的殴打、谋杀、撞车等暴行。从周五清晨到周日，那栋房子里的人“觉得自己仿佛走过漫漫长途，在这个突然而至的周末，被助产士又从母腹中接出来，重生一遍”。
作者以幽默、讽刺的笔调，将上世纪六七十年代西方世界掀起的激进自由主义的社会风暴如实展现在读者面前。这场风暴冲垮了西方道德传统的底线，对一代人造成巨大的冲击与伤害，把一个个纯真善良的年轻人变成“文明的野蛮人”，成为人类历史长河中的一股逆流。
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。与伊恩•麦克尤恩（Ian McEwan）、朱利安•巴恩斯（Julian Barnes）齐名。1974年，艾米斯凭其处女作《雷切尔文件》摘得毛姆文学奖，并被誉为“文学天才”。此后艾米斯借其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、乔伊斯等大师的影响，在写实的手法上融入了意识流、黑色幽默及浓郁的魔幻主义风格；其先锋实验的文学品格、标新立异的创作形式、变幻莫测的情节铺陈以及惊世骇俗的语言天赋是的他被形容为是“蘸着迷药水书写的文坛大师”。
The Untimely Death of Spirit and Soul
A dark farce of cunning evil
A self-defeating death orgy
Six young men gather for a weekend in a large house on the outskirts of London, where their appetite is piqued by the arrival of three American guests. Their excessive drinking and debauchery was followed by a series of beatings, murders and car crashes. From Friday morning to Sunday, the people in that house "felt as if they had traveled a long way and been taken out of their mother's womb and reborn all over again by the midwife on this sudden weekend."
With a humorous and ironic tone, the author presents the social storm of radical liberalism set off in the Western world in the 1960s and 1970s. This storm broke the bottom line of the Western moral tradition, caused great impact and damage to a generation, and turned one innocent and kind young people into "civilized barbarians", becoming a countercurrent in the long river of human history.
About the author
Martin Amis (1949-2023), a famous contemporary British writer, was born in 1949 in Oxford literary family, the son of the famous novelist Kingsley Amis. Alongside Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes. In 1974, Amis won the Maugham Literature Prize for her debut novel, The Rachel Papers, and was hailed as a "literary genius". Amis then rose to the top of the literary world with a series of varied 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 technique. His pioneering experimental literary character, innovative writing forms, unpredictable plots and astonishing language talent have led him to be described as "a literary master who writes with addictive potions".
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