圖書標籤: Geoff_Dyer 英國文學 Fiction 英文版 英國 外國文學 外國小說 印度
发表于2024-11-07
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
A wildly original novel of erotic fulfillment and spiritual yearning. Every two years the international art world descends on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among them is Jeff Atman-a jaded and dissolute journalist-whose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled partygoing is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story. When he meets the spellbinding Laura, he is rejuvenated, ecstatic. Their romance blossoms quickly, but is it destined to disappear just as rapidly? Every day thousands of pilgrims head to the banks of the Ganges at Varanasi, the holiest Hindu city in India. Among their number is a narrator who may or may not be the Atman previously seen in Venice. Intending to visit only for a few days he ends up staying for months, and suddenly finds-or should that be loses?-a hitherto unexamined idea of himself, "the "self. In a romance he can only observe, he sees a reflection of the kind of pleasures that, willingly or not, he has renounced. In the process, two ancient and watery cities become versions of each other. Could two stories, in two different cities, actually be one and the same story? Nothing Geoff Dyer has written before is as wonderfully unbridled, as dead-on in evocation of place, longing and the possibility of neurotic enlightenment, and as irrepressibly entertaining as "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi."""
Geoff Dyer is the author of Ways of Telling, critical study of John Berger; The Missing of the Somme, about World War I; and the novels Paris Trance, Out of Sheer Rage, The Color of Memory and The Search.
Part of life is going home, the other part trying to never go home
評分還是更喜歡前半部分發生在威尼斯的那個故事。調情的段落寫的尤其精彩啊
評分還是更喜歡前半部分發生在威尼斯的那個故事。調情的段落寫的尤其精彩啊
評分Venice部分是一切都在上升、蒸騰,最後消失在水汽中;Varanasi部分是在下沉、浸沒,最後消融在恒河中。兩部分都特彆喜歡,看完心情復雜但又在某種程度上是純粹的覺悟。
評分Part of life is going home, the other part trying to never go home
小说名以逗号分隔,标明由一分为二的两个故事组成,两者在人物,地点和事件上并无交集,相似处仅在皆为滨水的古城。第一个故事讲述伦敦自由撰稿人杰夫按照约稿前往威尼斯参加双年展,并撰写相关报道,期间发生一段艳遇又转瞬即逝。作者在情节建构上充分发挥互文性,其诸多...
評分甫一阅读这本小说,就有了写书评的欲望。不得不说,这个是小说的成功。刚开始看,是在一节摇晃的地铁车厢里。很快就看到了物我两忘的境界。 书名叫《杰夫在威尼斯,死亡在瓦拉纳西》,书名就是如此的抢眼,以至于我根本不用构思其他的题目来写这个书评。在这个注意力被...
評分前前后后断断续续好像看了两个月。最开始面对着一大堆无比纠结的意大利式的ZB艺术词汇头痛。忍到后来看到熟悉的印度描写,那些rickshaw,那些temple,那些恼人的pestering。很崇拜作者可以以如此幽默以及哲学式的语言写这本书。虽然看到后来愈发地觉得他多多少少在调戏印度的神...
評分甫一阅读这本小说,就有了写书评的欲望。不得不说,这个是小说的成功。刚开始看,是在一节摇晃的地铁车厢里。很快就看到了物我两忘的境界。 书名叫《杰夫在威尼斯,死亡在瓦拉纳西》,书名就是如此的抢眼,以至于我根本不用构思其他的题目来写这个书评。在这个注意力被...
評分没找到想找的书,却在书架上看到了“瓦拉纳西”这四个大字。于是就把这本书借回来看了。 去过印度,没去过瓦拉纳西,但听过N个版本对于这个地方的描述。很多的描述里,那里是内心修炼的圣地,感悟生死,获得心灵上的自由。也有很多的版本,充斥着死尸、粪便和疟疾。“有墙就是...
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024