英文图书 / Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类) · 7.8万字
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1919年,毛姆45岁时,发表了这部《月亮与六便士》。小说故事情节相对比较简单:某进入中年的英国券商,忽然决定抛妻弃子,跟随内心长久以来积压着的念头,立志要成为一个艺术家。这个故事的源头来自画家高更的生平故事。这种行为并不为世俗社会所认可。本来作为一个券商,手里有大把大把的钞票可以挥霍过活,为什么非要当什么艺术家?为什么最后连生存都变成一个问题?结果,这位想成为艺术家的券商后来连个住处都找不到,身体也患上了疾病,混到了没有钱买食物果腹,整天挨饿的境地。也许,艺术家的世界,凡夫俗子们永远不会懂。这位艺术家不仅没有被这种境地吓倒,反而愈加坚强地活了下去。而且,不顾身体上的疾病带来的不适,也无视周遭环境的恶劣程度,一心扑在绘画的创作之中。在太平洋的一个叫作塔西提的小岛上,他创作出了让人看一眼就会产生荡气回肠感觉的“杰作”。但此时,他已经溘然长逝。那么,为什么叫“月亮与六便士”?其实,用毛姆自己的话说,这个书名的意义并没有在书里得到应有的展示,而是出自某评论家在评论上述《人性的枷锁》时所写的某句话。原话如下:《人性的枷锁》里的主人公菲利普·凯利(PhilipCarey)被形容为一个太过执着找寻月亮的家伙,以至于他从来没发现过脚底下就有一块六便士。毛姆后来这样解释道:“假如你低头在地上不住地要找寻一块六便士硬币,头也不抬起来一下,那么,你就会丢掉月亮。”
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William Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874-16 December 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.
After losing both his parents by the age of 10, Maugham was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. Not wanting to become a lawyer like other men in his family, Maugham eventually trained and qualified as a doctor. The first run of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave up medicine to write full-time.
During the First World War, he served with the Red Cross and in the ambulance corps, before being recruited in 1916 into the British Secret Intelligence Service, for which he worked in Switzerland and Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. During and after the war, he traveled in India and Southeast Asia; all of these experiences were reflected in later short stories and novels.
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