ISBN号:9780224090193
书名:Satin Island
作者:Tom McCarthy
出版日期:2015-02-16T16:00:00+00:00
英文简介:
Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize ‘A horrifyingly comic novel of ideas with its fingers jammed into the light-socket of the age’ Guardian ‘A Kafka for the Google Age’ Daily Telegraph Meet U.
– a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London.
His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their ‘corporate anthropologist’ to help decode and manipulate the world around them – all the more so now that a giant, epoch-defining project is in the offing.
Instead, U.
spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions, zombie parades.
Is there, U.
wonders, a secret logic holding all these images together – a codex that, once cracked, will unlock the master-meaning of our age? Might it have something to do with South Pacific Cargo Cults, or the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not.
As U.
oscillates between the visionary and the vague, brilliance and bullshit, Satin Island emerges, an impassioned and exquisite novel for our disjointed times.
中文简介:
入围 2015 年曼布克奖 入围 2015 年金史密斯奖 “一部充满思想的恐怖喜剧小说,手指插进时代的灯座”卫报 “谷歌时代的卡夫卡”日报Telegraph Meet U. – 一个才华横溢但不安分的人物,目前正在向当代伦敦的一家精英咨询公司展示他的技能。
他的雇主为从大企业到政府的每个人提供建议,并为此期望他们的“企业人类学家”帮助破译和操纵他们周围的世界——现在更是如此,因为一个巨大的、划时代的项目即将到来。
相反,U. 每天都在拖延,在无尽的信息缓冲区中徘徊,并沉迷于世界每天轰炸他的图像:石油泄漏、非洲交通堵塞、旱冰鞋游行、僵尸游行。
U. 想知道,是否存在将所有这些图像结合在一起的秘密逻辑——一旦破解,就会解开我们这个时代的主要意义的法典?它可能与南太平洋货物崇拜或新闻中死去的跳伞者有关吗?也许;也许不是。
当 U. 在空想与模糊、光彩与废话之间摇摆不定时,缎岛出现了,这是一部适合我们这个杂乱无章的时代的热情洋溢而精美的小说。
书籍总体字数:48816,除去名字和专有名词等之后还剩余46074计入单词总数。
书籍单词数少于5万,难度应该较低,不过还需要结合下方难度分析。
其中:
四级单词出现41686个/次,
六级单词(排除四级单词后)出现870个/次,
托福单词出现21208个/次,
SAT单词出现3161个/次,
GRE单词出现5441个/次,考研单词出现41885个/次,
雅思单词出现11861个/次。
高中单词出现39844个/次。
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这些统计基于我的词库,不排除词库存在误差,仅供参考。
非常欢迎大家提供自己收集的词库给我。
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