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发表于2024-11-14
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Edmund White was forty-three years old when he moved to Paris in 1983. He spoke no French and knew just two people in the entire city, but soon discovered the anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. White fell passionately in love with Paris, its beauty in the half-light and eternal mists; its serenity compared with the New York he had known.
Intoxicated and intellectually stimulated by its culture, he became the definitive biographer of Jean Genet, wrote lives of Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud, and became a recipient of the French Order of Arts and Letters. Frequent trips across the Channel to literary parties in London begot friendships with Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis and many others. When he left, fifteen years later, to return to the US, he was fluent enough to broadcast on French radio and TV, and as a journalist had made the acquaintance of everyone from Yves St Laurent to Catherine Deneuve to Michel Foucault. He'd also developed a close friendship with an older woman, Marie-Claude, through whom he'd come to a deeper understanding of French life.
Inside a Pearl vividly recalls those fertile years, and offers a brilliant examination of a city and a culture eternally imbued with an aura of enchantment.
Edmund White is the author of many novels, including the classic A Boy's Own Story and the most recent Jack Holmes & His Friend; two previous memoirs, My Lives and City Boy; biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud; and several other works of non-fiction, including The Flaneur. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at Princeton University.
The gossipy memoirs of a fading literary queen, rather enjoyable....
評分The gossipy memoirs of a fading literary queen, rather enjoyable....
評分喜歡Edmund White的迴憶錄勝過他的小說,大概是因為他在迴憶錄中展現的那份fearless and shameless的風範。Inside a Pearl在時間上接續上一本City Boy,進入80年代,紐約一改昔日的破落麵貌,變得光鮮亮麗起來後,永遠的文學青年White去瞭巴黎去過另一種流浪寫作的生活,一住就是十六年,這期間艾滋病在同誌中爆發蔓延,他經曆瞭瘟疫的恐慌和愛人友人逝去的傷痛,書中一麵迴憶他在巴黎、法國、歐洲各地的見聞,一麵夾雜他對大洋彼岸不同文化的觀察,可以津津樂道的八卦,直言不諱的評述,以及一位老人的感傷。
評分Candid and unflattering. Edmund White is my hero.
評分Candid and unflattering. Edmund White is my hero.
A good read and a very comprehensive look at his Paris years, though I don't know 95% of the people he was name-dropping.
評分A good read and a very comprehensive look at his Paris years, though I don't know 95% of the people he was name-dropping.
評分A good read and a very comprehensive look at his Paris years, though I don't know 95% of the people he was name-dropping.
評分A good read and a very comprehensive look at his Paris years, though I don't know 95% of the people he was name-dropping.
評分A good read and a very comprehensive look at his Paris years, though I don't know 95% of the people he was name-dropping.
Inside a Pearl pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024