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The Moon Is Down [图书] 豆瓣
作者: [美国] John Steinbeck Penguin Classics 1995 - 11
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again.

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斯坦贝克真的从不让我失望……这个故事篇幅很短,但故事背后的故事更让人难以忘怀……故事写的是看似温和有感情的军人怎么在军装之下行残忍之事,看似温良驯服的民众又怎样在沉默中爆发和反抗,训练有素的军人能迅速征服自由民,但自由民永远不会再被打败后就放弃抗争;军人以为制服反抗领袖就能终结反抗,而自由民的反抗情绪只会在领袖的牺牲中不断高涨……听完故事之后了解创作背景,才知道这个短篇的创作始于二战开始后、完成美国正式宣战前,并鼓舞了大批沦陷区人民地下反抗的斗志,而隔岸观火的美国人还在指手画脚,嫌他把纳粹军人写得“太有人性”——战争的可怕之处正是让有人性之人行最残暴之事,斯坦贝克身处战区之外的美国,能在这个时间点写出这样的文字,将战争中人民的心态细腻真实地展现,很难不感叹于他强大的共情能力

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