士兵的重负

【美】蒂姆·奥布莱恩

出版时间

2010-03-01

ISBN

9787532750078

评分

★★★★★

标签

文学

书籍介绍
这不像一本让你读完便释怀的战争小说。它反复追问:一个真实的战争故事,到底能不能用“是否属实”来衡量?作者给出的答案近乎冒犯——真相或许恰恰藏在“它从未发生,却比事实更真”的褶皱里。于是读者看到的不是英雄叙事,而是士兵们身上沉甸甸的清单:疟疾、虱子、一枚勋章、一张女友的照片、还有整个越南潮湿闷热的空气。它逼你承认,战争的重量从不只来自子弹。这本书适合那些不愿被“升华的精神境界”轻易安抚的读者:它不提供道德典范,不颁发勇气证书,只把泥泞、怯懦、荒诞与思念原样交还。若你正寻找一部能重新定义“战争文学”该如何书写的作品,它值得你放慢脚步,哪怕它絮叨、琐碎,甚至让你怀疑译本是否出了错。
作者简介
蒂姆·奥布莱恩,美国作家。生于美国明尼苏达州沃辛顿,1968年毕业于圣保罗的麦卡莱斯特学院。1966至1970年,他作为步兵在越南服役。战后,他在哈佛大学攻读政府学研究生课程,后担任《华盛顿邮报》的国家事务记者。现居于马萨诸塞。 奥布莱恩的作品主要反映他在越战中的经历以及战争给美国士兵带来的巨大影响。1979年,《追寻卡奇亚托》荣获美国国家图书奖。1994年《湖畔迷网》被《纽约时报书评》评为年度最佳图书,亦被《时代周刊》评为年度最佳小说。1998年,《恋爱中的雄猫》一经出版立刻成为全美畅销书。
AI导读
核心看点
  • 探讨故事真实与事实真实的界限
  • 以物品隐喻士兵的心理与情感重负
  • 解构战争叙事,拒绝道德说教
读者共识
  • 文字极具穿透力,情感沉重且深刻
  • 风格独特,被誉为最棒的战争小说之一
  • 部分读者觉得结构松散,阅读门槛较高
精彩摘录
  • "You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, "Is it true?" and if the answer matters, you've got your answer. For example, we've all heard this one. Four guys go down a trail. A grenade sails out. One guy jumps on it and takes the "
  • "I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening truth."
  • "And I can say, honestly, "Of course not."Or I can say, honestly, "Yes.""
  • "They carried infections. They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of Conduct, They carried diseases, among them malaria and dysentery. They carried lice and ringworm and leeches and "
  • "...In part he was grieving for Ted Lavender, but mostly it was for Martha, and for himself, because she belonged to another world, which was not quite real, and because she was a junior at Mount Sebastian College in new Jersey, a poet and a virgin and uninvolved, and because he realized she did not "
  • "Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night wh"
  • "The day was cloudy. I passed through towns with familiar names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. I survived, but it's not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to the war."
  • "A war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of"
目录
士兵的重负
爱情
旋转
雷尼河畔
成为敌人

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用户评论
一个真实的战争故事从来就不是道德的。它既不传授、鼓励美德,也不提出值得效仿的人类正当行为的典范,更不抑制人类去做人类一直在做的事情。如果一个故事让人觉得是道德的,就不要相信。如果听完或看完了一个战争故事,你感到精神境界得到升华,或感到有那么一点正直已经从更为严重的毁坏中被挽救回来,那么,你就已经成为一种非常古老和可怕谎言的受害者——越南战争是场荒谬的战争,年轻士兵不知道为何而战也不知道他们为什么要待在那里,死亡在用手电筒看同伴女友照片时轰然而至,而你只能眼睁睁看着战友活活淹死在粪坑里而无能为力,为报复战友被杀再去杀戳,最终走向自我毁灭。
三星半。有点碎片化了,整体感欠缺一点。
典型的美国式纪实小说,典型的中尉文学。嗯。 浅故事很直白,深阅读算值得。适合通勤路上看,但是不适合通勤路上思考
看到有人拿巴别尔来比较,总感觉哪里有点微妙的别扭……( ̄_ ̄|||)
翻了一半,没打动我,大概是题材不对口。
你经历的事情并非自己的选择,无法接受的困在时间里,是生命的停滞,循环....
译的什么玩意,看到第28页实在看不下去了,甚至不如机翻
一种全新类别的战争小说,是一幕幕令人印象深刻的剧,写战争、写战后、写站前。喜欢里面写排长思考的故事和一个退役士兵回家乡的故事。
通過朴贊郁的推薦書單 閱讀的這本書 很寫實的越戰小說
美军越南回忆,没写战斗,作者却时刻在战斗,过去的回忆,道德的审判,一个又一个人物的浮现,死亡加重了悲剧色彩。有意思的还是每个人物独特的闪光点,里面为数不多的女性爱上了越南的潜伏战斗,人物的转变戏剧结合当时美国的大环境又符合逻辑。
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