编辑推荐In Praise of Older Women By Stephen Vizinczey
‘You cannot put it down: witty, moving and it’s all about sex. Truly original’ Margaret Drabble, Guardian (1966)
‘Unfading freshness… a great contemporary writer… the passion to be free, the passion for love and the passion to become somebody marks his singularity in every instance.’ Carles Barba, La Vanguardia (2007)
‘A masterpiece… dazzling… like all great novels, it shows the truth about life.’ Pierre Lepape, Le Monde (2001)
‘humour and absolute naturalness. Vizinczey’s knowledge extends to all fields, including the literary one. The novel has a dynamism defined by one of its own phrases. Haven’t you heard of Einstein’s Law? Pleasure turns into energy.’ Clara Janés, El País (1988)
‘A tender, beautiful book.’ Michael Frayn (1966)
‘It is a funny novel about sex, or rather (which is rarer) a novel which is funny – as well as touching- about sex. Elegant, exact and melodious… has style and presence and individuality.’ Isabel Quigly, The Sunday Telegraph (1966)
‘Because of the strict catholic upbringing of the hero, every encounter has the exultation of the forbidden… the adoration of every detail of the other’s body attains a biblical intensity.’ Werner Spies, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2004)
‘I was suspicious of In Praise of Older Women if only because the novel became a worldwide best-seller. I was wrong. This is true eroticism, which resides in the discovery of and respect for the other person, which enriches one's knowledge of oneself.’
‘A classically refined narrative simmering with paradox and humour. An elegant entertainment conjured out of our present chaos.’ Michael Ratcliffe, The Times (1968)
‘In Praise of Older Women has now the undisputed status of a modern erotic classic.’ Harry Reid, The Glasgow Herald (1985)
‘Liberating…an attack on the pop culture deification of youth, more pronounced today than in 1965 and it gives Mr. Vizinczey’s novel a particular currency… Like James Joyce, who is as far from being a writer of erotica as Dostoevsky, Vizinczey has a refreshing message to deliver. Life is not about sex, sex is about life.’ John Podhoretz, Washington Times (1986)
‘András is two rarities: a genuinely educated man and a man who genuinely likes women… his love, though inconstant to its objects, is constant in genuinely being in love. His sensuousness justifies itself, like the extravagance of champagne by its own effervescence; it is not only a symptom of András’s pleasure, but a pleasing entity, of whose existence one is glad.’ Brigid Brophy, The London Magazine (1966)
‘Eroticism with profundity and wit. Vizinczey’s prose is so crystal-clear and gracefully poignant that one reads the novel with continuous hormonal delight.’ Jorge Lech, Diario 16 (Madrid, 1989) ‘Conveys much of the warmth and understanding that seems more common between the sheets than between the covers of novels… falls like an antidote into our youth obsessed society… delightfully charming, richly ironic… a fresh breeze blowing through our libraries overloaded with neurotica..’ Library Journal (New York) 1966
‘It tells a unique story, tender, pleasant and entertaining, which conquers the reader. A delicious book, as heady as a goblet of Tokay.’ Jorge Amado (Rio de Janeiro, 1987)
‘An erotic classic of subtle complexity, humour and wit. An invitation to the experience of love, to adventure. But it is also the portrait of someone who is familiar to us from family stories, someone we have all known at some time. And perhaps the novel’s great success is owing to this, and to his style, which is so unaffected, so natural and at the same time so perfectly exact.’ Menene Gras Balaguer, La Vanguardia (Barcelona, 1988)
‘This novel brims with what the Courts have termed “redeeming literary merit”.’ Clarence Petersen, Chicago Tribune (1986)
‘At the basis of eroticism Vizinczey places consciousness… His novel consists of scenes you can see… Stupefying. It leaves you breathless. Here everything is living ardour, inexhaustible fervour.’ Giorgio Montefoschi, Corriere della Sera (2004)
‘A riot of a bestseller… a brilliant piece of writing. After reading this one you realize that Vizinczey really knows and Henry Miller and the rest – even D. H. Lawrence – only thought they did.’ Alan Forrest, The Sunday Citizen (1966)
‘It is undoubtedly the most incredible publishing adventure of recent years... In France, In Praise of Older Women has been riding high now for eighteen months: it has practically never been off the bestseller lists... An entertaining story, anti-conformist and profound, and a sober and irreproachable style - nothing more was needed.’ Francois Busnel, L'Express (2002)
‘One of the most readable, most entertaining and wisest books of world literature.’ Arno Widmann, Perlentaucher der Kultur und Literatur (2004)
‘A masterpiece of European wisdom and humour, which needed the New World to blossom in all its lightness.’ Alberto Bevilacqua, Grazia (2004)
'Elegantly erotic, with masses of that indefinable quality, style . . . this has the real stuff of immortality.’ B. A. Young, Punch (1966)
Spectacular! It’s always a risky business, re-reading a book which was important to you in your adolescence. But re-reading this one, I was struck by a great deal that I missed before … a much richer book than I remembered. Immensely pleasurable. A. A. Gill (2010)
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