THE NAMESAKE

昨天睡前，匆匆把JHUMPA LAHIRI的“THE NAMESAKE”读完。是真的匆匆，我这个人读小说有个毛病，总是迫不及待地想知道结尾，所以读书读到一半的时候，总是会很难受，为了赶着满足自己，就会囫囵吞枣般地读下去。直到最后一页，才大大地松一口气。

说点整体的感觉吧。作者的文笔非常细腻，细节描写的能力非常突出，但有时候会给读者一种压迫感，或者说是压抑感，因为太细腻了，会觉得枯燥。作者很好地运用了自己作为女性的情感理解能力，把人物的心理描写得很出色，尤其她写的是本民族移民故事，所以在刻画上更具有真实感和深入感。我觉得在人物心理方面，作者把ASHIMA（母亲）的心理描写得最为妥当。个人感觉，由于性别的差距，我感觉，对ASHOKE（父亲）和GOGOL（儿子）的心理掌握还是有不足的地方，尤其是GOGOL，越到后面，越会有这样的感觉，觉得还是有东西没有被作者抓住并描绘出来。

在故事本身，我个人不喜欢MOUSHUMI（GOGOL的妻子）有外遇并离婚的情节安排。我没有研究过作者本身的背景，我有一种感觉，觉得作者更倾向于异族移民的第二代走出本民族的婚姻模式。我个人倒觉得，如果GOGOL能和MOUSHUMI在婚姻路上WORK OUT并找出一条适合自己的路，那会是更精彩的。

在人物方面，我觉得，作者没有把SONIA（妹妹）更多地刻画一下，是一个缺憾。母亲的刻画在后面也显单薄。

请千万不要被我因个人的喜好而做出的评论所误导。应该说，这是一本好书，是一个能吸引我快速而努力读完的故事，鉴于它是一本近300页的英文书，可想它的吸引力是巨大的。

印象里有几段很感触的文字。比如：有关移民心理。
For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy – a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis in what had once been ordinary life, only to discover that that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding. Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curiosity from strangers, the same combination of pity and respect.

比如，有关人生。
In so many ways, his (Gogol) family’s life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another……And yet these events have formed Gogol, shaped him, determined who he is. They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were that prevailed, what endured, in the end.

还有一些，因为未做标记，找不到了。呵呵，匆匆之后的遗留问题。

已经打算不匆匆地再读一遍。当然，这之前，还要好好去读一读那位大名鼎鼎的果戈理（GOGOL）的《外套》（THE OVERCOAT）。