首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
What kind of magic can make an 800-page novel seem too short? Whatever it is, debut author Susanna Clarke is possessed by it, an
What kind of magic can make an 800-page novel seem too short? Whatever it is, debut author Susanna Clarke is possessed by it, an
admin
2011-02-11
29
问题
What kind of magic can make an 800-page novel seem too short? Whatever it is, debut author Susanna Clarke is possessed by it, and her astonished readers will surely hope she never recovers. Her epic history of an alternative, magical England is so beautifully realized that not one of the many enchantments Clarke chronicles in the book could ever be as potent or as quickening as her own magnificent narrative.
It is 1806, and Gilbert Norrell is the only true magician in England. He sets out to restore the practice of magic to a nation that has not seen it for more than 300 years. But there is an odd and fateful twist to Norrell’s character: he is as scholarly and insufferably pedantic as he is gifted. In short, Norrell is the most boring and unmagical person imaginable. This is Clarke’s masterstroke, the necessary touch of ordinary candleshine in the midst of all the uncanny fairy light she dispenses.
Enter Jonathan Strange, the intuitive magician—the natural—who can improvise in a flash what Norrell has gleaned from long study. Strange becomes Norrell’s pupil, but soon the tension between their styles mounts to a breaking point. The two men realize that they have a fundamental disagreement about how to approach the mysterious and terrifying sources of English magic, in the face of which even Albus Dumbledore might find himself unnerved.
Just as Norrell and Strange apprentice themselves to a Golden Age of medieval magicians, Clarke tethers her craft to the great 19th-century English masters of the novel, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. The book offers not only an Austen-like inquiry into the fine human line between ridiculous flaw and serious consequence, but also a Dickensian flow of language in which a comical surplus of detail rings at last with certain and inevitable significance.
This elixir of literary influences gives the story its delightful texture. But there is so much more to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell—an energy buckling and straining at the edges of the book in sheer imaginative overflow, just as the realm of Faerie buckles and strains beyond the edges of England’s green fields, beckoning us down the overgrown path and through the dark wood.
Thus it happens that a novel of 800 pages seems far too short. This is the strangest’and, as we gratefully come to understand, the "norrellest"—magic a book lover could wish for.
Susanna Clarke’s readers hope that she would ______.
选项
A、recover from the effects of her success
B、continue to produce wonderful work
C、limit her craft to Jane Austen
D、understand Strange’s magic
答案
B
解析
见第一段第二句:崭露头角的小说家Clarke有某种魔力,可以使人读她的大部头作品不觉得冗长,而她的读者惊讶之余一定会希望她不要从这魔力中“解放”出来(意即希望她保持这种魔力,继续创作出令读者欣喜的小说)。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/HueO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Changesinthewaypeoplelivebringaboutchangesinthejobsthattheydo.Moreandmorepeopleliveintownsandcitiesinst
A、Anexportsalesmanworkingoverseas.B、Anaccountantworkinginthecompany.C、Aproductionmanagerinabranch.D、Apolicyma
Values,Characteristics,PersonalHabitsandCourtesiesofAmericansAlthoughAmericanshategeneralizationsandholdaneth
Manypeoplethinkthattraditionalcultureswillbelostasscienceandtechnologydevelops.People’slifeischangingrapidlyw
1Iwasleavingtheofficewhenthephonerang.2"John?It’sMike,"hesaid."MikeClarke."3Therewassomet
Morethanjustarevolutionarytoolforindexing,analyzing,ortransmittingcontent,digitaltechnologyisactuallyreshapingt
ThediscoveryoftheAntarcticnotonlyprovedoneofthemostinterestingofallgeographicaladventures,butcreatedwhatmigh
Since1971theCanadiangovernmenthasadoptedpolicyof______,recognizingthatculturalpluralismwithinabilingualframewor
Thepublicationof______establishedEmersonasthemosteloquentspokesmanoftheNewEnglandTranscendentalism.
随机试题
桌面上一边摆了三块积木,另一边摆了四块积木,教师问:“一共有几块积木?”从幼儿的下列表现来看,数学能力发展水平最高的是()
Languageandculturearenotfundamentallyinseparable.Atthemostbasiclevel,languageisamethodofexpressingideas.That
长期按摩感觉迟钝者,可用盐水泡脚半小时。()
个人正确人生观的确立最根本的是()
钩端螺旋体病的流行类型有
营业收入是财务分析的重要数据,其估算的准确性直接影响项目()的可靠性。
甲施工企业利用暂时闲置的资金,于2006年3月购入丙上市公司股票,实际支付价款为300000元,并且准备持有5个月。甲企业购买的股票属于企业的()。
2017年3月1日,甲公司外购一栋写字楼直接租赁给乙公司使用,租赁期为6年,每年租金为180万元。甲公司对投资性房地产采用公允价值模式进行后续计量,该写字楼的买价为3000万元;2017年12月31日,该写字楼的公允价值为3200万元。假设不考虑相关税费,
请阅读下面录像题的情景叙述,找出情景叙述中秘书行为及工作环境中正确或错误的地方(应至少找出15处正误点)。情景叙述秘书卫红身着职业装来到总经理办公室,敲门后进入:“王总,考虑到您第二季度活动较多,我为您制定了一份活动时间表。”表格格式正确,内容完整。
冰水混合物的温度是0℃,低于一4℃时,水可能凝结成冰。现在气温已经在零下,下列选项正确的是()
最新回复
(
0
)