Rites of Passage: Introduced by Annie Proulx
19世紀初頭、オーストラリア行きの船に乗り込んだ若い英国人タルボットの目を通して、閉ざされた船上社会が欲望、階級意識、宗教的偽善によって揺らいでいく。海の旅が、そのまま人間関係の試練になっていく小説。
作品情報
船という逃げ場のない空間が、人間の本性を静かにあぶり出す。
William Golding の Sea Trilogy の第1作として、船旅の進行に合わせて乗客たちの関係と自制が少しずつ崩れていく。心理劇であり、植民地時代の緊張を映す歴史小説でもある。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Faber & Faber
- 発売日
- 2022-04-07
- ページ数
- 336ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780571371648
- ISBN-10
- 0571371647
- 価格
- 3088 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Sea Adventures
Introduced by Annie Proulx, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning historical novel: the first in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies. I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon . . . Edmund Talbot is sailing to Australia in the early nineteenth century. In his journal, he records mounting tensions aboard the ancient, stinking warship, as officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped darkness below decks. But when something happens to Reverend Colley that brings him into a 'hell of self-degradation', it seems that shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself . . . 'It is the emotional veracity of life at sea that powers Golding's exceptional writing ... The fury, mystery and challenge .' Kate Mosse 'Golding writes the past as present [with] uncanny skill and tremendous intuition.' Ben Okri 'A master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom - necessary, provoking, urgent, rich, complex and rare.' The Times 'Golding's best and most accessible story since Lord of the Flies .' Melvyn Bragg 'An extraordinary novel.' Observer 'A truly noble achievement'. Patrick O'Brien To The Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy - Book One
William Golding (1911 - 1993 ) was born in Cornwall and educated at Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. Before becoming a writer, he was an actor, small-boat sailor, musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of Holland. Lord of the Flies , his first novel, was turned down by several publishers but rescued from the 'reject pile' at Faber and published in 1954. It became a modern classic selling millions of copies, translated into 44 languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993. www.william-golding.co.uk
レビュー
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Best for those who already have some affinity with the sea/sea-faring/the Navy.
It was an amusing 'read', and I enjoyed it, though I doubt it would be everyone's "cup of tea". Who knows?
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read all three volumes, great reading
Yes and yes again !
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Overlong.
I expected to enjoy an interesting novel in regard to Edmund's seagoing experiences, but found the book is overlong. Events are far too drawn out to hold one's interest.
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Great memory’s of my Navy days
Nice was a nice touch and the initiation over the equator was a great recall of some great memories “Shell Back”
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Disappointing
I got the book having seen the movie based on the film of the trilogy but won't bother to get the other two as the writing is turgid and boring.
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