Cecil Beaton was one of the great twentieth-century tastemakers. A photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, he was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. The Unexpurgated Beaton brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited.
Hugo Vickers, the executor of Beaton’s estate and the author of his acclaimed biography, has added extensive and fascinating notes that are as lively as the diary entries themselves. As one London reviewer wrote, “Vickers’ waspish footnotes are the salt on the side of the dish.” Beaton treated his other published diaries like his photographs, endlessly retouching them, but, for this volume, Vickers went back to the original manuscripts to find the unedited diaries.
Here is the photographer for British and American Vogue, designer of the sets and costumes for the play and film My Fair Lady and the film Gigi, with a cast of characters from many worlds: Bianca Jagger, Greta Garbo, David Hockney, Truman Capote, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, Mae West, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich, Rose Kennedy and assorted Rothschilds, Phippses and Wrightsmans; in New York, San Francisco, Palm Beach, Rio and Greece, on the Amalfi coast; at shooting parties in the English countryside, on yachts, at garden parties at Buckingham Palace, at costume balls in Venice, Paris or London.
Beaton had started as an outsider and “developed the power to observe, first with his nose pressed up against the glass,” and then later from within inner circles. Vickers has said, “his eagle eye missed nothing,” and his diaries are intuitive, malicious (he took a “relish in hating certain figures”), praising and awestruck. Truman Capote once said “the camera will never be invented that could capture or encompass all that he actually sees.”
The Unexpurgated Beaton is a book that is not only a great read and wicked fun but a timeless chronicle of our age.
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《The Unexpurgated Beaton》带来的阅读体验,与其说是愉悦,不如说是深刻的触动。作者的文字具有一种穿透力,能够直抵读者的内心深处。我常常在阅读时感到一种莫名的压抑,但这种压抑又不是令人窒息的,反而是一种对现实的直面和反思。书中对社会、对人际关系、对个体命运的探讨,都极其深刻。我尤其欣赏作者的勇气,她敢于触碰那些被很多人回避的敏感话题,并以一种不动声色的方式将其呈现出来。这本书不是用来消遣的,它是用来思考的。它会让你在读完之后,久久不能平静,反复回味其中的细节和含义。这种强烈的共鸣感,是许多其他书籍所无法给予的。
评分坦白说,刚开始接触《The Unexpurgated Beaton》时,我并没有抱太大的期望。我以为会是某种程式化的作品,有固定的模式和可预测的情节。然而,这本书完全打破了我的这种刻板印象。作者的叙事风格非常别致,它不像那种一眼就能看穿的流水账,而是像一幅逐渐展开的画卷,每一个笔触都精心设计,最终组合成一幅令人惊叹的图景。我对书中人物的塑造尤为印象深刻,他们不是非黑即白的典型形象,而是充满了矛盾和挣扎的真实个体。作者并没有试图美化他们,而是将他们最真实、最不完美的一面呈现在我们面前。这种真实感非常打动我,也让我对人性有了更深刻的理解。每一次阅读,都能发现新的层次和解读,它就像一本永远也读不完的书。
评分这是一本极具挑战性的作品,《The Unexpurgated Beaton》绝不是那种轻松愉快的读物。作者的叙事方式充满了实验性,她打破了传统的线性叙事,将故事碎片化,并以一种意想不到的方式重新组合。这种结构上的创新,无疑增加了阅读的难度,但也带来了前所未有的惊喜。我花了相当长的时间来消化书中的内容,有时需要反复阅读某个章节,才能真正理解作者的意图。但正是这种“费劲”的过程,才让我收获了更多的东西。书中的每一个字,似乎都蕴含着作者的心血和思考。它迫使我去重新审视那些习以为常的概念,并开始质疑那些我们曾经深信不疑的真理。这是一次心灵的洗礼,也是一次对自我认知的重塑。
评分《The Unexpurgated Beaton》给我的感觉是,作者仿佛是一位技艺高超的解剖师,用最精密的刀法,剖开了人物的灵魂。它不是那种读完就能立刻忘记的书,它的文字像是有某种粘性,会附着在你的脑海里,时不时地浮现出来。我特别喜欢作者对细节的把握,那些微小的动作、眼神的交流,甚至沉默的瞬间,都被赋予了沉甸甸的意义。在阅读过程中,我时常会停下来,想象着书中的场景,仿佛自己就置身于那个环境中,感受着角色的喜怒哀乐。这本书的叙事节奏也很独特,它不会刻意去迎合读者的阅读习惯,有时会显得缓慢而沉重,有时又会突然加速,让你措手不及。但正是这种不拘一格的节奏,才使得整个故事更加真实,更加具有生命力。它让我看到了,原来文学可以如此大胆,如此无畏。
评分读完《The Unexpurgated Beaton》后,我深感震撼,它不仅仅是一本书,更像是一次穿越时空的对话。作者以一种近乎赤裸的方式,将人物内心最隐秘的角落摊开在读者面前。我原以为会读到一些轻松愉快的茶余饭后故事,毕竟“Beaton”这个名字总带着一丝优雅和俏皮,但这本书完全颠覆了我的预期。它探讨了人性的复杂性,那些我们在日常生活中极力掩饰的欲望、恐惧和矛盾,在这里得到了淋漓尽致的展现。作者并没有回避那些令人不适的真相,反而以一种冷静甚至带着点残酷的笔触,描绘了角色们在极端困境下的挣扎与抉择。每一次翻页,都像是在剥开一层层伪装,直到触碰到最核心、最脆弱的部分。这本书带来的冲击是持续性的,它迫使我去反思自己的价值观,以及我们如何看待他人。那种撕裂感和自我审视是阅读过程中最深刻的体验。
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评分妙语连珠"savagely bitchy, brilliantly vivid and wonderfully gossipy"hahaha
评分妙语连珠"savagely bitchy, brilliantly vivid and wonderfully gossipy"hahaha
评分妙语连珠"savagely bitchy, brilliantly vivid and wonderfully gossipy"hahaha
评分妙语连珠"savagely bitchy, brilliantly vivid and wonderfully gossipy"hahaha
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