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When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a...

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When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.

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Christopher Isherwood was a novelist, playwright, screen-writer, autobiographer, and diarist. He was also homosexual and made this a theme of some of his writing. He was born near Manchester in the north of England in 1904, became a U.S. citizen in 1946, and died at home in Santa Monica, California in January 1986.

Isherwood was the grandson and heir of a country squire, and hi...

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Christopher Isherwood was a novelist, playwright, screen-writer, autobiographer, and diarist. He was also homosexual and made this a theme of some of his writing. He was born near Manchester in the north of England in 1904, became a U.S. citizen in 1946, and died at home in Santa Monica, California in January 1986.

Isherwood was the grandson and heir of a country squire, and his boyhood was privileged. With a school friend, Wystan Auden, he wrote three plays—The Dog Beneath the Skin (1932), The Ascent of F6 (1936), and On the Frontier (1938). Isherwood tells the story in his first autobiography, Lions and Shadows.

In 1925, Isherwood was asked to leave Cambridge University after writing joke answers on his second-year exams. He briefly attended medical school, and progressed with his first two novels, All the Conspirators (1928) and The Memorial (1932). In 1930, he moved to Berlin where he taught English, dabbled in communism, and enthusiastically explored his homosexuality. His experiences there, provided the material for Mr. Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1938), still his most famous book.

In Berlin in 1932, he also began an important relationship with a young German, Heinz Neddermeyer, with whom he fled the Nazis in 1933. Neddermeyer was refused entry to England on his second visit in 1934, and the pair moved restlessly about Europe until they were finally separated when Neddermeyer was arrested by the Gestapo in May 1937.

In 1938, Isherwood sailed with Auden to China to write Journey to a War (1939), about the Sino-Japanese conflict. They returned to England and Isherwood went on to Hollywood to look for movie-writing work. He also became a disciple of the Ramakrishna monk, Swami Prabhavananda, head of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. He decided not to take monastic vows, but he remained a Hindu for the rest of his life, serving, praying, and lecturing in the temple every week and writing a biography, Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965).

In 1945, Isherwood published Prater Violet, fictionalizing his first movie writing job in London in 1933-1934. In Hollywood, he spent the start of the 1950s fighting his way free of a destructive five-year affair with an attractive and undisciplined American photographer, William Caskey. Caskey took the photographs for Isherwood’s travel book about South America, The Condor and The Cows (1947). Isherwood’s sixth novel, The World in the Evening (1954), written mostly during this period, was less successful than earlier ones.

In 1953, he fell in love with Don Bachardy, an eighteen-year-old college student born and raised in Los Angeles. They were to remain together until Isherwood’s death. In 1961, Isherwood and completed the final revisions to his new novel Down There on a Visit (1962). Their relationship nearly ended in 1963, and Isherwood moved out of their Santa Monica house. This dark period underpins Isherwood’s masterpiece A Single Man (1964).

Isherwood wrote another novel, A Meeting by the River (1967), about two brothers, but he gave up writing fiction and turned entirely to autobiography. In Kathleen and Frank (1971), he drew on the letters and diaries of his parents. In Christopher and His Kind (1976), he returned to the 1930s to tell, as a publicly avowed homosexual, the real story of his life in Berlin and his wanderings with Heinz Neddermeyer. The book made him a hero of gay liberation and a national celebrity all over again but now in his true, political and personal identity. His last book, My Guru and His Disciple (1980), records with similar honesty his conversion to Hinduism and his devotion to Swami Prabhavananda.

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岛上的夏奈 2012-05-11 18:43:38 南方出版社2014版

挚爱无尽

闹钟响起的时候，我在微凉的被窝中突然醒来。这是冬末春初早晨8点的上海，这个季节的寒风，依旧不肯放过任何一次展现自我的机会。睁着眼睛却不想起身，耳边慢慢传来轨道交通经过窗户时“况且况且”的声音。脑袋一片空白，下一秒应该干什么完全想不起来。维持这样的姿势躺了十来... (展开)

张躲躲 2014-10-14 15:35:59 南方出版社2014版

他们在谈论政治，我只想念你的身体

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写字的好处就是可以在作品中肆意表达自己的情绪，爱一个人誉之，恨一个人毁之，思念一个人可以尽情表达，哪怕夸大其好处坏处都无所谓，哪怕将内心泛滥的波涛倾倒向世间闹他个水漫金山也无所谓。艾什伍德即使如此。这本《单身》的创作就源自作者本人的一次失恋，小他30岁的好基... (展开)

胡阿忧 2014-10-15 18:28:30 南方出版社2014版

单身

《单身》 ——克里斯多福·艾什伍德 《单身》名声在外，一直因各种借口无缘亲近；赶上十一有福，信手练来着重读了一读，去感受了一下那种撕心裂肺又温如有心的文字之旅，颇多感触，稍有体会，总结于此，以观后效。 爱从来是多种多样的，从性别上固执的把人分为男人女人，其实... (展开)

遠濤 2010-12-09 10:21:27 新經典圖文傳播有限公司2010版

赤裸的男人【文／阮慶岳】

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赤裸的男人 文／阮慶岳（小說家／建築師） 克里斯多福．伊薛伍德（Christopher Isherwood，1904～1986）不管是作為一個生命個體，或單單去凝看他的文學作品，都一樣引人。低調沉靜的靈魂本質，熊熊烈火般的生命熱度，與那時代年輕心靈共有的漂泊與自我放逐個性，交織出他既私... (展开)

feeling 2012-06-05 10:51:39 南方出版社2014版

优柔心•放逐命

在读原著《单身》之前，电影《单身男子》预先为我铺垫了一个一心赴死的完美印象。然而电影与小说是异卵双生，他们拥有各自动人却迥然不同的面貌。不不不，关于《单身》，这真的不是一个一心赴死的故事。 一直以为菲茨杰拉德最爱在作品中打自我烙印，读了艾什伍德才发现，此人... (展开)

Eva 2020-11-22 12:27:32 上海译文出版社2020版

一个独身中年男子的24小时

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他公开兜售五分钱的钻石，却被路过的人笑话这是疯狂的老家伙。他多想直抒胸臆与人沟通，却被学生评价为“讳莫如深”。 —— 乔治，58岁，圣托马斯州立大学教授，现住在香樟巷。他的“巢穴”侧对着马路。马路的另一边，是他不太可爱的邻居，那些总管束不了孩子故意惹怒他的邻居... (展开)

玉壶 2014-11-20 17:43:29 南方出版社2014版

必须要爱

你看，邻居们依旧假装和善；熊孩子还是那么招人讨厌；他们眼中我还是那个道德败坏、性取向有毛病的怪兽；有些国家在制造导弹；有些文明即将礼崩乐坏；我照常给学生讲课，他们听到一点点知识就哈哈大笑认为我很渊博；我给他们解答问题，可我不知道自己究竟说了些什么。对了，我... (展开)

余生 2012-11-22 22:56:42

独自面对时间

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今天看完了《A single man》，值得一看的一本书。 首先这是一本关于时间的书。达洛卫夫人的preface有这么一段：The present itself is but the past not yet passed. And as the receptacle of possibility for us, the past is the source of our future. That is how Time w... (展开)

soloye 2021-05-17 14:57:11 上海译文出版社2020版

孤独的人是群居动物

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书的开头是“概念性”的，以“在”和“我在”开始，意识先于主体，连自我都尚未构成，但经过一番按部就班的细致打理，“乔治”这个身份才浮现出来。 穿戴整齐后，它就变成了“他”。 虽然确实是一只裸猿，但“也不能裸着，得穿戴整齐，毕竟要出门，去到有其他人的世界，必须让... (展开)

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