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Christopher Hitchens

Twelve

2011-9-1

816

USD 30.00

Hardcover

9781455502776

图书标签: ChristopherHitchens essays 杂文英文随笔政治文化研究文化

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"All first-rate criticism first defines what we are confronting," the late, great jazz critic Whitney Balliett once wrote. By that measure, the essays of Christopher Hitchens are in the first tier. For nearly four decades, Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront when we grapple with first principles-the principles of reason and tolerance and scepticism that define and inform the foundations of our civilization-principles that, to endure, must be defended anew by every generation.

"A short list of the greatest living conversationalists in English," said The Economist , "would probably have to include Christopher Hitchens, Sir Patrick Leigh-Fermor, and Sir Tom Stoppard. Great brilliance, fantastic powers of recall, and quick wit are clearly valuable in sustaining conversation at these cosmic levels. Charm may be helpful, too." Hitchens – who staunchly declines all offers of knighthood-hereby invites you to take a seat at a democratic conversation, to be engaged, and to be reasoned with. His knowledge is formidable, an encyclopedic treasure, and yet one has the feeling, reading him, of hearing a person thinking out loud, following the inexorable logic of his thought, wherever it might lead, unafraid to expose fraudulence, denounce injustice, and excoriate hypocrisy. Legions of readers, admirers and detractors alike, have learned to read Hitchens with something approaching awe at his felicity of language, the oxygen in every sentence, the enviable wit and his readiness, even eagerness, to fight a foe or mount the ramparts.

Here, he supplies fresh perceptions of such figures as varied as Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Rebecca West, George Orwell, J.G. Ballard, and Philip Larkin are matched in brilliance by his pungent discussions and intrepid observations, gathered from a lifetime of travelling and reporting from such destinations as Iran, China, and Pakistan.

Hitchens's directness, elegance, lightly carried erudition, critical and psychological insight, humour, and sympathy-applied as they are here to a dazzling variety of subjects-all set a standard for the essayist that has rarely been matched in our time. What emerges from this indispensable volume is an intellectual self-portrait of a writer with an exemplary steadiness of purpose and a love affair with the delights and seductions of the English language, a man anchored in a profound and humane vision of the human longing for reason and justice.

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Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a matchless writer, debater and humanist. Throughout his life he shone the light of reason and truth into the eyes of charlatans and hucksters, exposing falsehood and decrying hypocrisy wherever he found it. With his passing, the world has lost a great soul, the written word one of its finest advocates and those who stand for freedom everywhere have lost one of their clearest voices.

Arguably collects Hitchens' writing on politics, literature and religion when he was at the zenith of his career; it is the indispensible companion to the finest English essayist since Orwell.

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we are all born into a losing struggle, but thank god for giving us christopher hitchens.

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这是CH发表在白板、名利场、大西洋等刊物的散文合集。作者文笔好，犀利，去过的地方多，视角虽然有时比较偏颇，经常透出激进无神论的味道，历史细节不够准确，但是可读性还是很强的啦。这本书是挑着读的，有些文学评论因为没有看过原著就跳过去了。有些八卦很有趣，比如Samuel Johnson抖m，动物农场落到T. S. Eliot手里没出版成，因为Eliot觉得太托洛茨基，而日晷给的拒信说，会说话的动物应该归迪斯尼管……吐槽各种现代圣经译本的所谓接地气其实俗不可耐简直太於我心有戚戚焉了哈哈哈，熊拉比要跟无神论骑士握手。骑士大叔当记者曾经到处转，在中东目睹的一切，比如叙利亚库尔德-基督徒聚居区，跟现在比起来简直美好太多。要是他活着，看到伊斯兰国的暴行，不知道又会写下什么犀利的文章。

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R4 read by Roger Allam. Believe me - It's Torture; Let Them Eat Pork Rinds, The Vietnam Syndrome, The Swastika and the Cedar; Flaw of Gravity