The Eye in The Door 門上的眼睛

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The Eye in the Door is a novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1993, and forming the second part of the Regeneration trilogy.
The Eye in the Door is set in London, beginning in mid-April, 1918, and continues the interwoven stories of Dr William Rivers, Billy Prior, and Siegfried Sassoon begun in Regeneration. It ends some time before the conclusion of the First World War later the same year. The third part of the trilogy, The Ghost Road, continues the story.
The narrative is driven by action, balanced by lengthy and well-crafted dialogues, many of which simmer with the cat-and-mouse tension of doctor-patient consultations. Description is kept close to a functional minimum.
The first and eponymous part of the Regeneration trilogy finishes somewhat inconclusively with Sassoon being cleared to return to active service on the Western Front. Several questions remain unanswered. What happens to Sassoon? How does Rivers resolve his personal conflicts over the contradictory goals of war and medicine? What resolution lies in store for the couple Billy Prior and Sarah Lumb? The Eye in the Door goes a long way to answering these questions, and raises still more.
Whereas Regeneration is an anomalous, but not unique, mixture of fact and fiction, The Eye in the Door acknowledges real events, including the campaign against homosexuals male and female being waged that year by right-wing MP Noel Pemberton Billing, but remains consistently within the realm of fiction. This grants Barker more freedom to explore her characters and their actions, the descriptions of which might be considered slanderous if attributed to real people. A major theme of the book, Prior's intense and indiscriminate bisexuality, is effectively contrasted with Rivers's tepid asexuality and Sassoon's pure homosexuality. Greater fictional scope also permits a deeper and more fascinating treatment of the complex psychological, political, and professional life of the charismatic and enigmatic central character, Billy Prior. This makes the book more purposeful and formally coherent than its predecessor.
The Eye in the Door subtly draws out some of the contradictions that war brings forth, acts that would normally be immoral become moral, the sane are treated as mad, and while a fight is waged for 'freedom' injustice and prejudice continue to flourish throughout England. The emergent conflicts shared by the main characters - some of which are artfully developed from incidental and easily overlooked minor aspects of the first book - make for intrigue that is only partially developed in this book. This sense of incompleteness, of the author holding something back, seems to presuppose a third volume in the series, perhaps calling into question the integral wholeness of this book as a stand-alone work.
[edit] Real people who appear in the Regeneration trilogy
Winston Churchill
Charles Dodgson
Robert Graves
Henry Head
Edward Marsh
Wilfred Owen
William Rivers
Robert Baldwin Ross
Bertrand Russell
Siegfried Sassoon
Harold Sherwood Spencer
Lewis Yealland

作者簡介

成名前“靠退稿箋打發(fā)日子”的女作家帕特·巴克（Ｐａｔ Ｂａｒｋｅｒ）意外贏獲今年的英國布克小說獎，令英倫書界倍感驚奇，因為獲獎名單揭曉前被認為最有望中獎的應該是９月間推出新作《摩爾人最后的嘆息》（ｔｈｅ Ｍｏｏｒ’ｓ Ｌａｓｔ Ｓｉｇｎ）的小說家薩爾曼·拉什迪（Ｓａｌｍａｎ Ｒｕｓｈｄｉｅ）。
１９４３年出生于英格蘭北方的巴克出身勞動階層，曾就讀于倫敦經(jīng)濟學院，從事文學創(chuàng)作前以教書為業(yè)。其祖母、母親和姐姐都是吃苦耐勞的清潔工，從小由開小食店的祖父母養(yǎng)大的巴克對英國勞動婦女有著深厚情感，自１９８２年出版處女作《聯(lián)盟街》（Ｕｎｉｏｎ Ｓｔｒｅｅｔ）后，她一直以勞動婦女的悲慘命運為題材進行寫作，相繼寫出了《炸塌你的房子》（Ｂｌｏｗ Ｙｏｕｒ Ｈｏｕｓｅ Ｄｏｗｎ）和《世紀的女兒》（Ｔｈｅ Ｃｅｎｔｕｒｙ’ｓ Ｄａｕｇｈ－ｔｅｒ）等小說。她于１９９１年起開始以第一次世界大戰(zhàn)為背景寫作，先后出版了《再生》（Ｒｅｇｅｎｅｒａｔｉｏｎ）、《門里的眼睛》（ｔｈｅ Ｅｙｅ Ｉｎ ｔｈｅ Ｄｏｏｒ）和《幽靈之路》（Ｔｈｅ Ｇｈｏｓｔ Ｒｏａｄ）小說三部曲。今年出版的《幽靈之路》為她贏得了眾所矚目的布克獎，并獲得２萬英鎊獎金。她認為，創(chuàng)作此小說目的并不是讓人們感受戰(zhàn)爭的恐怖，而是要人們思考為什么會發(fā)生戰(zhàn)爭以及戰(zhàn)火帶給人類社會的災禍。她說，作品是受當年參加過戰(zhàn)爭的祖父激發(fā)而寫就。
巴克是繼Ａ．Ｓ拜阿特（Ａ．Ｓ Ｂｙａｔｔ）１９９０年獲布克獎以后，又一個獲此獎的女小說家。她在英國文壇甚有影響，處女作《聯(lián)盟街》曾被改編成電影《斯坦利和艾麗絲》（Ｓｔａｎｌｅｙ Ａｎｄ Ｉｒｉｓ），由著名影星簡·方達和羅伯特·德尼羅主演。今年與她同獲布克獎提名的除拉什迪外，還有３年前的布克獎得主巴里·昂斯沃思（Ｂａｒｒｙ Ｕｎｓｗｏｒｔｈ）、澳大利亞小說家蒂姆·溫頓（Ｔｉｍ Ｗｉｎｔｍ）和南非作家賈斯廷·卡特賴特（Ｊｕｓｔｉｎ Ｃａｒｔｗｒｉｇｈｔ）。
全稱布克·麥康奈爾小說獎（Ｂｏｏｋｅｒ Ｍｃ－Ｃｏｎｎｅｌｌ Ｐｒｉｚｅ ｆｏｒ Ｆｉｃｔｉｏｎ）的布克獎設立于１９６９年，評獎經(jīng)費由英國布克·麥康奈爾跨國公司提供，由５位資深文學評論家組成的評委對每年在英國和英聯(lián)邦國家內用英文出版的小說進行評選，初次選出１４１部，經(jīng)過評委６個月審讀，再推舉出６部（有時可達８部）入圍終評，最后評出一名獲獎者，獎金２萬英鎊。
年選一次的布克獎雖常因評獎結果引起爭議，但也因其得獎作家的非凡功力而被認為當今英倫最有權威性的文學大獎，歷屆得主中不乏獲獎后又獲諾貝爾文學獎的納丁·戈迪默和威廉·戈爾丁，以及因作品被拍成電影而名揚全球的實力派作家，比如《辛德勒名單》作者湯姆斯·基尼利和《余日殘戀》作者石黑一雄。
Pat Barker
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Pat Barker (born May 8 1943[1]) is an English writer and historian. She published her first novel, Union Street, in 1982 and has since won critical acclaim for her First World War series, the Regeneration trilogy, a fictionalised account of the wartime experiences of the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, and the fictional protagonist, Lt. Billy Prior. The final book in the trilogy, The Ghost Road, won the Booker Prize upon its publication.
In 1965 Barker completed a degree in international history at the London School of Economics[2] and subsequently studied at Durham University marrying David Barker, a now retired Zoology Professor at the institution. Their daughter Anna Ralph published her own novel The Floating Island (Hutchinson, ISBN 10: 0091795559) in 2007.
Barker's biographer is Sharon Montieth.[3].
[edit] Books
Union Street (1982)
Blow Your House Down (1984)
The Century's Daughter (also known as Liza's England; 1986)
The Man Who Wasn't There (1989)
Regeneration Trilogy :
Regeneration (1991)
The Eye in the Door (1993)
The Ghost Road (1995)
Another World (1998)
Border Crossing (2001)
Double Vision (2003)
Life Class (2007)

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