最新报告The English Patient Michael Ondaatje引以为流觞曲水
Context
Michael Ondaatje, poet, filmmaker, and editor, was born in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in September 1943. He moved to England with his mother in 1954, and then relocated to Canada in 1962, receiving an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and a master's degree from Queen's University in Kingston. Originally a poet, Ondaatje's eventual career in fiction was boosted by the success of his book of poetry, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970), an account of the factual and fictional life of the famous outlaw, for which Ondaatje won a Governor General's award. He won the coveted award again in 1979 for a cond book of poetry entitled There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do.
In the 1980s, Ondaatje turned his attention to novels, publishing Running in the Family (1982) about his family's life in Ceylon, and In the Skin of the Lion (1987), which is t in 1930s Toronto. Ondaatje is perhaps best known, however, for The English Patient (1992), a
novel t in World War II Italy. Ondaatje won a Booker Prize for the novel, and the 1996 film adaptation went on to win widespread critical acclaim and nine Academy Awards. Alongside his writing, Ondaatje has taught at York University in Toronto since 1971. He and his wife, Linda Spalding, make there home in Toronto, and together edit the literary journal Brick.
The English Patient is a work of historical fiction t in the hills of Tuscany during World War II. It interspers the factual and the imaginary into a tale of tragedy and passion. Structurally, the novel resists chronological order, alternating between prent action in the Italian villa and flashbacks to memories of a mysterious dert romance that is gradually revealed. The imagery is characterized by Ondaatje's "preoccupation with romantic exoticism and multiculturalism." Rather than offer a narrator telling a straightforward story, Ondaatje turns the romance into an unlikely mystery, revealing hidden facets of character and identity as the novel progress. Ondaatje explores his characters by placing them in blank, cluded ttings. Both the barren dert and the isolated Tuscan villa are insular and remote, enabling the author to study his characters i
ntenly.
蛔虫病Innovative in narrative structure and complicated by numerous points of view, The English Patient resists easy classification into any particular literary genre. Yet Ondaatje us the novel to renew themes that have been explored throughout the ages: national identity, the connection between body and mind, and love that transcends place and time. Perhaps most significant is the fact that Ondaatje blends the forms of pro and poetry, evoking images and emotions with highly lyrical language. His words translate "real experience into symbolic experience" by appealing to memories that involve all of the reader's ns. As Ondaatje once said in a radio interview, he us his pro to "create a tactile landscape for his choreography." In The English Patient such a landscape augments the poetry and lyricism of the novel.
Plot Overview此时的近义词
In The English Patient, the past and the prent are continually intertwined. The narrative structure interspers descriptions of prent action with thoughts and conversations that
offer glimps of past events and occurrences. Though there is no single narrator, the story is alternatively en from the point of view of each of the main characters.
The novel opens with Hana, a young nur, gardening outside a villa in Italy in 1945. The European theater of the war has just ended with the Germans retreating up the Italian countryside. As the Germans retreated, they left hidden bombs and mines everywhere, so the landscape is particularly dangerous. Although the other nurs and patients have left the villa to escape to a safer place, Hana decides to stay in the villa with her patient.
霍金得了什么病Hana does not know much about the man for whom she cares. Found in the wreckage of a plane crash, he been burned beyond recognition, his whole body black and even the slightest touch painful to him. He talks about the Bedouin tribe who found him in the wreckage, cared for his wounds, and eventually returned him to a British camp in 1944. He does not know who they were, but he feels grateful to them nonetheless. To pass the time, Hana reads to the English patient—she assumes he is English by his manner and speech—and also gardens, fixes up the villa, and plays hopscotch. Sometimes she picks
up the patient's notebook, a copy of Herodotus's The Histories marked throughout with his own notes, figures, and obrvations, and reads to him or to herlf.
档案管理工作总结One day, a man with bandaged hands named Caravaggio arrives at the villa. He is an old family friend of Hana's father, Patrick, and had heard about her location while he was recovering in a hospital a few miles away. In Canada, where Caravaggio knew Hana years ago, he was a thief. He tells her how his skills were legitimized in the war and how he put them to u working for British Intelligence in North Africa. He tells her that the Germans caught him after an attempt to steal a camera from a woman's room. They tortured him and cut off his thumbs, leaving his hands mutilated and nearly uless. Although he has recovered somewhat, he is still addicted to morphine. In the villa, he reminisces with Hana and mourns with her over the death of her father in the war.
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