[01:06.30]内容概要
[01:10.22]A touching look into the heart and family
[01:13.64]of one of America's greatest poets.
[01:18.28]As a literary portrait of a father and son,
[01:22.27]little can match the eloquence
[01:24.76]and honesty of this collection of letters,
[01:29.11]written by Allen Ginsberg and his father,
[01:33.18]Louis, spanning the years 1944 to 1976.
[01:43.43]讲解
[02:02.85]语言点
[02:05.46]touching
[02:06.60]touch 接触，触摸
[02:10.28]don't touch me
[02:13.93]touch 感动，打动
[02:17.04]touching
[02:22.55]moving
[02:24.65]It's a touching movie.
[02:29.42]match 敌的过，匹敌
[02:33.41]The girl has beauty that could never be matched.
[02:41.09]match 相配
[02:45.30]The coat matches the dress.
[02:51.11]span 跨越
[02:59.94]A marriage than spanned 40 years.
[03:10.03]The bridge spans the gorges.
[03:18.52]Their correspondence is filled with affection, respect,
[03:22.88]and a healthy dose of argumentative zeal
[03:27.11]they debate every major political
[03:30.21]and artistic issue that faced America
[03:33.95]in over three decades of extraordinary change.
[03:38.42]But the letters also tell of a strong bond of intimacy
[03:43.79]and affection between the two,
[03:46.45]revealing just how crucial
[03:49.06]that closeness was to the development
[03:51.97]of Allen Ginsberg's art.
[03:55.63]讲解
[04:18.51]语言点
[04:21.00]be filled with
[04:22.45]fill 装满，灌满
[04:28.50]be filled with
[04:31.49]The bottle is filled with water.
[04:40.04]full
[04:42.77]be full of
[04:46.59]The bottle is full of water.
[04:52.42]关键詞
[04:55.09]Dear vido, University College, High School,
[05:06.07]West Indies, New York, Oxford University,
[05:18.16]West Indian, British Council, Caribbean Voices,
[05:30.61]Oxford February, Port of Spain, Oxford January,
[05:43.78]The Adventures of Gurudeva, Indian Commissioner,
[05:53.36]Oxford April, Oxford March, Oxford Tory,
[06:05.31]Sangre Grande, Ashmolean Museum,
[06:16.10]Carnival Queen, Oxford July, Sunday Express,
[06:29.02]Sunday Guardian, Trinidad Guardian
[06:39.64]语言点
[06:42.58]high school 高中
[06:44.39]幼儿园 kindergarten
[06:46.40]小学 elementary school / primary school
[06:52.24]初中 junior high school
[06:55.13]高中 senior high school
[06:59.43]express 快递，快速的
[07:04.81]快报
[07:06.74]It's an express train.
[07:13.07]ＥＭＳ 特快邮政服务
[07:17.48]express mail service
[07:22.68]精彩点评
[07:25.16]Writing to his eldest son Vidia in Oxford in 1950,
[07:31.66]Seepersad Naipaul observed:
[07:35.03]"Your letters are charming in their spontaneity.
[07:40.79]If you could write me letters about things
[07:44.21]and people--especially people--at Oxford,
[07:49.19]I could compile them in a book:
[07:52.73]Letters between a Father and Son
[07:56.07]or My Oxford Letters.
[08:00.51]讲解
[08:21.49]Nearly fifty years later,
[08:24.24]the father's desire has been fulfilled by the son
[08:28.37]with the publication of VS Naipaul's Letters
[08:33.32]between a Father and Son.
[08:36.57]The collection covers the period
[08:39.11]between Naipaul's departures from his native Trinidad
[08:43.80]in 1950 to study at Oxford,
[08:48.33]to the untimely death of his father
[08:51.47]in 1953 at the age of 47.
[08:57.37]Alongside the letters between father and son
[09:01.20]are those between Naipaul and his older sister,
[09:05.75]Kamla, a student at the Benares Hindu University in India,
[09:13.40]who is advised by her 17-year-old brother
[09:17.03]to watch your personal effects carefully;
[09:20.61]the Indians are a thieving lot.
[09:24.17]讲解
[09:59.30]At the heart of the book lies Naipaul's undergraduate life
[10:03.92]at Oxford and his father's deeply moving support for his son,
[10:09.87]as he strives to maintain his own writing career
[10:14.20]whilst he watches his son's own literary talent flower.
[10:20.06]The minutiae of Naipaul's college life
[10:23.89]offers a fascinating account of the genesis of the querulous,
[10:30.03]fussy and patrician Naipaul.
[10:33.88]Letters are full of stories of Naipaul's
[10:37.16]endless rounds of tea parties,
[10:40.19]writing for the Oxford journal Isis,
[10:43.55]flirting with European women
[10:46.18]and endless requests for cigarettes from home.
[10:52.15]讲解
[11:26.46]But the most revealing
[11:28.90]and moving dimension of the collection is the love
[11:32.92]and friendship between father and son.
[11:37.06]Seepersad both vents his own literary frustrations
[11:41.54]upon his son,
[11:43.29]whilst at the same time
[11:45.47]assuring Naipaul of his own unconditional support:
[11:50.81]"I feel so darned cocksure
[11:54.58]that I can produce a novel within six months.
[11:58.76]if only I had nothing else to do. This is impossible.
[12:04.52]But I want to give you this chance."
[12:09.51]讲解
[12:37.45]Seepersad's sudden death is very affecting,
[12:41.85]as is Naipaul's telegraphed response home:
[12:46.21]"Everything I owe to him."
[12:49.37]This is a deeply revealing collection
[12:52.94]of one of the most enigmatic writers of the post-war period,
[12:58.41]which offers an absorbing insight
[13:01.24]into Naipaul's early fiction,
[13:04.19]particularly The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street.