A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. "Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything" (Harpers & Queen), it...(展开全部)

Alan Hollinghurst’s first novel is a tour de force : a darkly erotic work that centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography. (20050324)

Alan Hollinghurst’s first novel is a tour de force : a darkly erotic work that centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography. (20050324)

霍林赫斯特在三十四歲出版的第一部作品《游泳池更衣室》（The Swimming-Pool Library，一九八八年出版）可以说是部披了同志小說外衣的歷史小說，有點像披了羊皮的狼。霍林赫斯特愛玩文字遊戲，連書名也不放過。《游泳池更衣室》通常直接按照英文書名譯為《游泳池圖書館》，但什麼是「游泳池圖書館」，以及「游泳池圖書館員」？太玄了吧？其實，解釋藏在書中第七章。主人翁在小時候就讀貴族中學（霍林赫斯特特別愛寫貴族中學、貴族大學的生活──可見他特別懷舊，對上流社會又愛又恨），該校習慣用「圖書館員」一詞來稱「股長」之類的學生職位。台灣中小學的「風紀股長」可以按照這種邏輯改叫「風紀圖書館員」；英國中學的「田徑圖書館員」當然不掌管書。「游泳池圖書館員」就是「游泳股長」，而這個股長平時打混的地方，泳池更衣室──一個充滿性幻想、窺視、曝露的純男空間──就成了游泳池...(展开全部)

A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. "Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything" (Harpers & Queen), it...(展开全部)

霍林赫斯特在三十四歲出版的第一部作品《游泳池更衣室》（The Swimming-Pool Library，一九八八年出版）可以说是部披了同志小說外衣的歷史小說，有點像披了羊皮的狼。霍林赫斯特愛玩文字遊戲，連書名也不放過。《游泳池更衣室》通常直接按照英文書名譯為《游泳池圖書館》，但什麼是「游泳池圖書館」，以及「游泳池圖書館員」？太玄了吧？其實，解釋藏在書中第七章。主人翁在小時候就讀貴族中學（霍林赫斯特特別愛寫貴族中學、貴族大學的生活──可見他特別懷舊，對上流社會又愛又恨），該校習慣用「圖書館員」一詞來稱「股長」之類的學生職位。台灣中小學的「風紀股長」可以按照這種邏輯改叫「風紀圖書館員」；英國中學的「田徑圖書館員」當然不掌管書。「游泳池圖書館員」就是「游泳股長」，而這個股長平時打混的地方，泳池更衣室──一個充滿性幻想、窺視、曝露的純男空間──就成了游泳池...(展开全部)