Mortal Coils
- ISBN13：9781511803809
- 出版社：Createspace Independent Pub
- 作者：Aldous Huxley
- 裝訂／頁數：平裝／224頁
- 規格：22.9cm*15.2cm*1.3cm (高/寬/厚)
- 出版日：2015/04/19
定 價：NT$ 450 元
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From The Bookman, Volume 55 [1922]:
The Editor Recommends —
Superb Irony
ALDOUS HUXLEY has again proved himself a wizard of irony in “Mortal Coils”. These humorous, skilful, bitter, brilliant stories are like glowing robes of satin lined with haircloth, shimmering yet irritating. They catch you unaware and deal a blow in a vital spot. This - seems to me a more satisfying book even than “Crome Yellow”. “The Gioconda Smile” is a story that ranks with the best of de Maupassant. Its development is masterly. The style is fluid, bright, and striking. “Permutations among the Nightingales" is subtler and terrible in its strange understanding of the psychology of hollow loves, or perhaps Mr. Huxley would say, of the hollowness of all loves. “The Tillotson Banquet”, a satire on the social patrons of art, might be screamingly funny to some and grotesquely piteous to others. “Green Tunnels" I do not understand; but “Nuns at Luncheon” is one of those pieces of writing that challenge analysis. Its effect on the mind is electric — the words that paint the great and passionate tragedy both horrify and amuse at the same time. The method of drawing a portrait of a person by making him the mouthpiece for a story is not new, nor is it easy. Here Huxley has done it admirably. While you cannot call “Mortal Coils" a pleasant book, it is yet an exceedingly humorous one. If Huxley is not already the most brilliant living writer of satire in English, he is rapidly maturing, and if he deepens as rapidly in the future as he has in the past two years, he will have a wide and clear field in which to be splendidly alone.
The Editor Recommends —
Superb Irony
ALDOUS HUXLEY has again proved himself a wizard of irony in “Mortal Coils”. These humorous, skilful, bitter, brilliant stories are like glowing robes of satin lined with haircloth, shimmering yet irritating. They catch you unaware and deal a blow in a vital spot. This - seems to me a more satisfying book even than “Crome Yellow”. “The Gioconda Smile” is a story that ranks with the best of de Maupassant. Its development is masterly. The style is fluid, bright, and striking. “Permutations among the Nightingales" is subtler and terrible in its strange understanding of the psychology of hollow loves, or perhaps Mr. Huxley would say, of the hollowness of all loves. “The Tillotson Banquet”, a satire on the social patrons of art, might be screamingly funny to some and grotesquely piteous to others. “Green Tunnels" I do not understand; but “Nuns at Luncheon” is one of those pieces of writing that challenge analysis. Its effect on the mind is electric — the words that paint the great and passionate tragedy both horrify and amuse at the same time. The method of drawing a portrait of a person by making him the mouthpiece for a story is not new, nor is it easy. Here Huxley has done it admirably. While you cannot call “Mortal Coils" a pleasant book, it is yet an exceedingly humorous one. If Huxley is not already the most brilliant living writer of satire in English, he is rapidly maturing, and if he deepens as rapidly in the future as he has in the past two years, he will have a wide and clear field in which to be splendidly alone.
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