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Sunday, September 28, 2008

I discover a writer!

He is Ken Kesey (1935 - 2001). He wrote a book called "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest".
It's about a duel between a nurse and a mental patient in the ward.
It has to be good because Signet's Classics never pick bad books.

The writer had already passed away, so I probably won't be as moved this time.
But he did write like my main man! haha! Not in style but in tone~~
Witty and with full of sophisticated everyday details~~

I've also bought Melville's Moby-Dick (無比敵 or 白鯨記) and Dostoyevsky's The Idiot~~
both 19th century novels.

主角梅什金公爵(Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin)是作家杜氏理想的一個基督式的人物,純潔、善良、坦率,充滿悲天憫人的胸懷。靠富商帕夫列謝夫的接濟,主角前往瑞士治療癲癇症,他到葉潘欽(Yepantchin)將軍家,被心胸狹隘的加尼亞罵:“真是個白癡!”他不斷寬容了加尼亞、羅戈任(Rogozhin)等人,加尼亞在懺悔後,依舊想要強娶納斯塔霞·菲裏波芙娜(Nastasya Filippovna)。羅戈任也始終把納斯塔霞看作己物,最後殺死她。梅什金公爵因他的同情和憐憫,同時毀了兩個女性,納斯塔霞嫁給羅戈任,幾次逃家,最後落得毀滅的悲慘結局,阿格拉婭(Aglaya)最後絕望,皈依天主教。梅什金公爵最后变成白痴,因為他發現基督的愛對於這個世界毫無作用。

原來係哩個 topic.. 但係.. Dostoyevsky 真係幾好睇.. 有品質保證..

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