The Cockroach
内容简介
Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan.
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.
Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain – and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy.
With trademark intelligence, insight and scabrous humour, Ian McEwan pays tribute to Franz Kafka’s most famous work to engage with a world turned on its head.
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作者简介
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
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读书文摘
开放社会的一条根本原则就是，法无禁止皆可为。在欧洲的东部边境之外，在极权国家里，国家不恩准，万事皆非法。
未来的历史学家们一定会研究一种特殊的“魔粉”所导致的失明——在当下席卷欧洲、美国、巴西、印度和许多其他国家的所有那些民粹运动中，这种“魔粉”可谓是一种共性。“魔粉”的成分在如今已是人尽皆知：疯狂的非理性、对陌生人的敌意、抵制耐心的分析、怀疑专家、夜郎自大式的爱国、狂热地相信简单粗暴的解决办法、渴求文化上的“纯洁”——再加入一小撮利用这些冲动的无底线政客。
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