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发表于2024-12-23
The Elixir of Immortality pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
A mesmerizing debut novel that spans a thousand years of European and Jewish history seen through the beguiling members of the Spinoza family
Since the eleventh century, the Spinoza family has passed down, from father to son, a secret manuscript containing the recipe for immortality. Now, after thirty-six generations, the last descendant of this long and illustrious chain, Ari Spinoza, doesn’t have a son to whom to entrust the manuscript. From his deathbed, he begins his narrative, hoping to save his lineage from oblivion.
Ari’s two main sources of his family’s history are a trunk of yellowing documents inherited from his grandfather, and his great-uncle Fernando’s tales that captivated him when he was a child. He chronicles the Spinozas’ involvement in some of Europe’s most formative cultural events with intertwining narratives that move through ages of tyranny, creativity, and social upheaval: into medieval Portugal, Grand inquisitor Torquemada’s
Spain, Rembrandt’s Amsterdam, the French Revolution, Freud’s Vienna, and the horrors of both world wars.
The Elixir of Immortality blends truth and fiction as it rewrites European history through comic, imaginative, scandalous, and tragic tales that prove “the only thing that can possibly give human beings immortality on this earth: our ability to remember.”
加比•格莱希曼,1954年出生于匈牙利布达佩斯,10岁搬到瑞典。拥有文学和哲学双学位。当过记者,曾任瑞典笔会会长,现生活在挪威奥斯陆,是出版商、作家和文学评论家。《永生之书》是他的第一部小说。
《永生之书》被称作是欧洲的《百年孤独》,这是一本我完全误打误撞遇到的书,稀里糊涂的就开始了阅读,让我对欧洲的历史,或者说对伊斯兰教、基督教与犹太教的发展史有了更加具象的了解,这本书讲述了一个犹太家族——斯宾诺莎家族的传奇故事。一千多年前,斯宾诺莎家族的祖先...
评分这本书我非常喜欢,一口气读了两遍!作者用平淡的语调叙述了如此波澜壮阔的历史,有的故事让人叹息,有的故事让人感动。大部分故事我都可以理解,我唯一想不通的是,为什么最后一代斯宾诺莎,也就是患了癌症的阿里,他不想用永生药水活下去呢?如果换做是我,我一定会用的。也...
评分小时候,常听老人说“看三国掉眼泪”,用来形容读故事的人,不自觉地为虚构的形象而担忧的状态。一个说故事的人,倘若真的可以“赚到”旁观者的眼泪,或许可以证明他真的很擅长说故事。可终究,这并不是什么难事,总有一种人,习惯于像席慕蓉笔下的“戏子”,“永远在别人的故...
评分何谓《永生之书》?何谓永生? 文/张成华 瑞典作家加比•格莱希曼(Gabi Gleichmann)的《永生之书》(The Elixir of Immortality)并不是一部容易读的小说,它模糊了真实与虚构的界限、叙述跳跃、故事琐碎、时间跨度长、人物繁多……我们可以列举许多形容词来指定这部小说...
评分小时候,常听老人说“看三国掉眼泪”,用来形容读故事的人,不自觉地为虚构的形象而担忧的状态。一个说故事的人,倘若真的可以“赚到”旁观者的眼泪,或许可以证明他真的很擅长说故事。可终究,这并不是什么难事,总有一种人,习惯于像席慕蓉笔下的“戏子”,“永远在别人的故...
The Elixir of Immortality pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024