Never Let Me Go读后感

作者：Kazuo Ishiguro

From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love. As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory. And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now. A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance–and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro’s finest work.

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Never Let Me Go
石黑一雄
每个人都知道克隆人也有感情思想，因为本质上它们只是我们的复制品。
为了润色我的论文我很早就应该把这本书读完，但是到这周才狠下心来快速地解决掉了。虽然我没有读过石黑一雄别的作品，但是对于这一本这么优秀的书竟然没有中文版我还是觉得很奇怪……
看过同名电影的人都知道这就是个“平淡无奇”的克隆人学生们的简单到极致缺很让人觉得心寒的故事。
我读这本书的时候时时刻刻有一种“认命”的感觉。从一开始在学校Hailsham学生们就自觉遵守规矩不会随便越界到学校外面，学生们从来不怀疑外界世界的一切，认真了解自己的使命就是donate自己，到毕业进入cottage，虽然也很好奇自己的“本尊”会是什么职业什么模样但也从来没有想过自己能有梦想去做别的事，最后哪怕是经过了三次donate还没有想为自己活过一次。（天啦这就是反乌托邦小说的魅力啊）很多反乌小说都有很强烈的“认命”感，但是这种没有希望的设定让我一下子联想到了《折叠北京》，同是看过万千世界还是认命回归自己的生活。
（我感觉会有人反驳我的想法hhh，可以在评论和我讨论讨论，顺便为我的论文多添加一些观点hhhh下面我要说的观点肯定也会有人不认同）
很多读者（或者观影者）都特别喜欢书里Tommy自己想到的理论“艺术能体现你的灵魂”（当然不说后面校长说的“艺术证明你有灵魂”），我觉得这个想法漏洞很大hhh。因为有些犯人或者精神病患者会有超高的艺术（可能是画画可能是文学）造诣，但是这并不能体现他们“犯过错”这一面的灵魂。
ps.我最喜欢的地方是Kath载着Ruth和Tommy去船的废墟这一段。Ruth总是在扯话题有意无意去看Tommy直到最后K和T都不耐烦打断了R。Ruth虽然很讨厌但是也好可怜啊。
（书里R并没有电影里那么杠精，电影里R在K床上对K说“你和t完全不可能”中的一大段都和原书有出入，书里讲的主要理由是k之前很有强的sex冲动所以有过好几次和男生睡的经历，而r说t不喜欢有这样经历的人）（其实应该直截了当把这一段加进去的，这样关于看小黄。书的情景想发在电影里就能连接得更顺畅了）