Only love strangers

The Comfort of Strangers

Douban

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"Only Love Strangers" is a highly sophisticated novella and a representative work of the "Horror Ian" period. It focuses on exploring the infinite possibilities of human desires and tells a story about how a pursuer of beauty destroys and kills the object of beauty in order to satisfy his own desires.

A pair of lovers, deeply in love yet seemingly at odds, are on vacation. From the first day they arrive in this bustling yet bizarre tourist city, they are followed and secretly photographed. These eyes, luring them from the shadows, tempt them to seek novelty, the solace of so-called strangers, and ultimately, they plunge wholeheartedly into a carefully crafted trap of lust and death.

The novel contains countless metaphors and is highly intertextual with many classic texts. It is full of meaningful quotations or parodies of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and E.M. Forster's A Room with a View. It is hailed as one of McEwan's two "small masterpieces".

2018-06-01

上海译文出版社

184

9787532777747