二十世纪的文学天空,群星闪耀。毛姆不是那颗最亮的,却是日月经天、江河流地中恒久璀璨的那一颗。他有如银河系里的白矮星,不以一时的光亮来耀人眼目,却以高密度、大质量来许诺未来,越来越灿烂。毛姆一方面高调声称,文学创作是“最迷人的人类活动”;同时也毫不含糊地坦承,自己无非一个二流作家。恐怕毛姆也无法预料的是,时间流转之下,他未被湮没,反倒被不同时代读者的热爱模塑成了不老的传说。有几个基本事实,大致可以描述毛姆的文学影响:在世 Twentieth-century literary sky, stars shine. Maugham is not the brightest, but it is the long, bright day of the moon and the moon. Like a white dwarf star in the Milky Way, he does not shine for a moment, but he promises a brighter future with greater density and quality. On the one hand, Mauphem claimed that literary creation is “the most intriguing human activity”; at the same time, he also admitted unequivocally that he was nothing more than a second-rate writer. I’m afraid Maugham could not have expected that he would not be oblivious to the passage of time, but was instead molded into an old legend by the readers’ love of different ages. There are a few basic facts that roughly describe the literary influence of Maugham: living here