Monica Ali s Brick Lane brilliantly evokes the Bangladeshi community. When herheroine walks down the famous East End street one step behind her husband, she sets thenovel s tone in a single scene. A year later London s gay community was given a new voicewith Alan Hollinghurst s The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker prize.
莫妮卡阿里的《砖巷》则触动着孟加拉裔群体的心弦。著名的东区大街上,女主人公落在丈夫后面一步,单这一幕便已奠定了这本小说的基调。一年后,阿兰霍灵赫斯特的《美丽线条》赋予了伦敦的同志群体新的声音,荣获曼布克奖。
The novels of London are now coming full circle, bringing a fuller cast into focus through twomodern preoccupations: economic crisis and terrorism. Two recent examples, JohnLanchester s Capital and Sebastian Faulks s A Week in December, fail to define their ageas Dickens or Conan Doyle did. But they also point to a new cosmopolitan cesspool, where asimilar set of worries beset every strata of society, uniting and dividing it along new lines.
如今,伦敦小说又再次回到原点,借由当代两大忧患经济危机与恐怖主义,拓宽视角,聚焦于方方面面。以最近的两本小说为例,约翰兰彻斯特的《首都》和塞巴斯蒂安福克斯的《十二月的一周》未能像狄更斯或柯南道尔的作品那样,成为一个时代的印记。但它们也展现了一个新的大都市版污水坑,同样有无尽烦恼纠缠着各个社会阶层,令他们在新的战线上分分合合。
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