书籍介绍
这并非一本供人轻松翻阅的英文读物，而是一场需要硬着头皮啃下去的智力较量。许多读者从最初的
作者简介
钱锺书:现代文学研究家、作家、文学史家、古典文学研究家。 字默存。1929年十九岁考入清华大学外文系，1935年二十五岁以第一名成绩考取英国庚子赔款公费留学生，赴英国牛津大学埃克塞特学院英文系留学。主要著作有：《写在人生边上》《人.兽.鬼》 《围城》《谈艺录》 《管锥篇》《七缀集》等。
AI导读
核心看点
- 首本集中收录钱锺书英文作品，含牛津学位论著及多篇书评随笔。
- 展现钱氏独步的含蓄嘲讽风格，文笔古色古香，具英伦随笔风范。
- 涉及东西方古典文史比较，考证缜密，体现学贯中西的深厚功底。
读者共识
- 普遍认可钱锺书英文造诣极高，幽默犀利，但阅读门槛较高。
- 读者常感叹自身英文功力不足，阅读体验如“狗刨加呛水”。
- 虽有小瑕疵，但作为首部英文文集，其文献价值不容小觑。
精彩摘录
- "......Hus Tse-mo, for all his aestheticism and artiness, is still a baby who can enjoy innocently the pleasures of life; his fits of unhappiness are those of a spoiled child who wails either because he has not got enough of sweets to eat or because he has eaten more than is good for his stomach. (.."
- "......Now, only a great man, or perhaps an egregious fool, can be so impervious to ridicule, and Mr. Wu Mi is a great personality. ...... Hence his almost desperate love-making; why, he has lost Paradise without gaining an Eve who will "share his woe" and "lighten his burden"! (......) He is not a g"
- "......His despair is not simply that of the paradise lost, but that of losing his paradise without gaining an Eve who will "light his burden and share his woe"! ...... He needs woman, but he sublimates this natural craving into pedagogic function to round off his self-culture, an architectonic neces"
- "This article formed originally part of a thesis written at Oxford in the years 1935-1937, years immediately before the outbreak of the War in China and then in Europe. And I now value it chiefly as a reminder of those years of peace when the undertaking of such work was still possible. Years so plea"
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