乔纳森•萨福兰•弗尔(Jonathan Safran Foer),1977年出生于美国华盛顿,曾获得普林斯顿(Princeton)大学的论文创作奖。大学毕业后,他曾做过停尸间助手、珠宝销售员、牧场临时看管员、以及捉刀写手。他的短篇小说曾在《巴黎评论》和《关联杂志》上发表,并于2000年荣获西洋镜小说奖。
发表于2024-12-23
Everything Is Illuminated 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
我看的都是一些很老的书,出版年数以十的倍数计的书,原因很简单——我没有太多时间看书,只好尽量保证自己看的每一本书都值得一读。我需要人们的口碑加上时光的清洗,清洗过后的沉淀会告诉我什么是什么、和什么。这样做当然绝非万无一失,但是比较保险。毕竟这世上好书的数量...
评分历史如潮水一样用来,人们向来处走去。 三个人,找寻一个城镇。 而城镇,又在它的历史里存在,过去的人们在其中生活。 当三人与那段历史有了最为亲密的接触时,战争、记忆、爱恨,纠缠而贯通。 是小说主角他们的穿梭,还是我们的?
评分在图书馆里发现的,英文原版,没见过中文版的 译者把书名译成《了了》,挺意外的; 书开章不久居然又跑出一封信来,貌似是某个大家给作者的评价和建议,又意外了; 初读来难以理出头绪,到结尾才与主人公一起豁然开朗,相当意外了 意外之旅 还有,原版的语言很令人无语,当然也...
评分在图书馆里发现的,英文原版,没见过中文版的 译者把书名译成《了了》,挺意外的; 书开章不久居然又跑出一封信来,貌似是某个大家给作者的评价和建议,又意外了; 初读来难以理出头绪,到结尾才与主人公一起豁然开朗,相当意外了 意外之旅 还有,原版的语言很令人无语,当然也...
评分for 周末画报 “我的法定姓名是亚历山大·普乔夫。但是我的众多朋友全都封我亚历克斯,因为那是我的法定姓名的一个讲起来比较松弛的版本。母亲封我‘亚历克斯别再脾气我了!’,因为我总是在脾气她。如果你想知道我为什么总是在脾气她,那是因为我总是和朋友在别的地方,并且...
图书标签: 小说 美国 当代文学 外国文学 anglais Solidays Fiction A-K‘
在线阅读本书
Book Description
Exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving, Everything Is Illuminated is an astonishing tour de force. In the summer after his junior year of college, a writer — also named Jonathan Safran Foer — journeys to the farmlands of eastern Europe. Armed with only a yellowing photograph, he sets out to find Augustine, the woman who might or might not be a link to the grandfather he never knew — the woman who, he has been told, saved his grandfather from the Nazis.
Guided by the unforgettable Alex, his young Ukrainian translator, who writes in a sublimely butchered English, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, and an old man haunted by his memories of the war, Jonathan is led on a quixotic search across a devastated landscape and back into an unexpected past. Braided into this story is the novel Jonathan is writing, a magical fable of his grandfather's village in Ukraine, a tapestry of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. In a counterpoint of voices blending high comedy and deep tragedy, the search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, and they meet in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power.
Passionate, wildly inventive, and marked by an indelible humanity, Everything Is Illuminated mines the black holes of history and is ultimately a story about searching: for people and places that no longer exist, for the hidden truths that haunt every family, and for the delicate but necessary tales that link past and future.
Amazon.com
The simplest thing would be to describe Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Holocaust. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his search by Alex Perchov, a na?ve Ukrainian translator, Alex's grandfather (also called Alex), and a flatulent mongrel dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. On their journey through Eastern Europe's obliterated landscape they unearth facts about the Nazi atrocities and the extent of Ukrainian complicity that have implications for Perchov as well as Safran Foer. This narrative is not, however, recounted from (the character) Jonathan Safran Foer's perspective. It is relayed through a series of letters that Alex sends to Foer. These are written in the kind of broken Russo-English normally reserved for Bond villains or Latka from Taxi. Interspersed between these letters are fragments of a novel by Safran Foer--a wonderfully imagined, almost magical realist, account of life in the shtetl before the Nazis destroyed it. These are in turn commented on by Alex, creating an additional metafictional angle to the tale.
If all this sounds a little daunting, don't be put off; Safran Foer is an extremely funny as well as intelligent writer who combines some of the best Jewish folk yarns since Isaac Bashevis Singer with a quite heartbreaking meditation on love, friendship, and loss.
--Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk
From Publishers Weekly
What would it sound like if a foreigner wrote a novel in broken English? Foer answers this question to marvelous effect in his inspired though uneven first novel. Much of the book is narrated by Ukrainian student Alex Perchov, whose hilarious and, in their own way, pitch-perfect malapropisms flourish under the influence of a thesaurus. Alex works for his family's travel agency, which caters to Jews who want to explore their ancestral shtetls. Jonathan Safran Foer, the novel's other hero, is such a Jew an American college student looking for the Ukrainian woman who hid his grandfather from the Nazis. He, Alex, Alex's depressive grandfather and his grandfather's "seeing-eye bitch" set out to find the elusive woman. Alex's descriptions of this "very rigid search" and his accompanying letters to Jonathan are interspersed with Jonathan's own mythical history of his grandfather's shtetl. Jonathan's great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Brod is the central figure in this history, which focuses mostly on the 18th and 19th centuries. Though there are some moments of demented genius here, on the whole the historical sections are less assured. There's a whiff of kitsch in Foer's jolly cast of pompous rabbis, cuckolded usurers and sharp-tongued widows, and the tone wavers between cozy ethnic humor, heady pontification and sentimental magic-realist whimsy. Nonetheless, Foer deftly handles the intricate story-within-a-story plot, and the layers of suspense build as the shtetl hurtles toward the devastation of the 20th century while Alex and Jonathan and Grandfather close in on the object of their search. An impressive, original debut. (Apr. 16)Forecast: Eagerly awaited since an excerpt was featured in the New Yorker's 2001 "Debut Fiction" issue, Everything Is Illuminated comes reasonably close to living up to the hype. Rights have so far been sold in 12 countries, the novel is a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and a main selection of Traditions Book Club, and Foer will embark on an author tour expect lively sales.
From Booklist
It may be a pretentious title for a 24-year-old's first novel, but nearly everything about this remarkable book is illuminated. There are two plots here. The first is the story of Jonathan Safran Foer, who travels to the Ukraine hoping to find Augustine, the woman who helped save his grandmother from the Nazis. Jonathan; his Ukranian translator, Alexi (who narrates much of the novel in a hilarious broken English); Alexi's grandfather; and the family dog, Sammy Davis Junior Junior, all grow to love Augustine on their mad and hopeless search for her. The second story follows the history of one family in Trachimbrod, the shtetl for which Alexi and Jonathan are searching. Beginning in the eighteenth century with the miraculous appearance of a baby girl, Brod, the sad story of Trachimbrod culminates in the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine. Although there's plenty of lyrical acrobatics here, with exquisite magic realism intermingling with Alexi's uproarious narration, it's the emotional depth of the characters that stands out, from the 613 distinct varieties of sadness observed by young Brod to the remarkable transcontinental friendship of Alexi and Jonathan. Foer, the editor of A Convergence of Birds (2001), a collection of stories and poems inspired by Joseph Cornell's bird boxes, may be young, but he's no pretender.
John Green
From Library Journal
This highly imaginative debut novel features a protagonist with the same name as the author. The fictional Jonathan Safran Foer, also a writer, travels to Eastern Europe after his junior year in college. His mission, as he ventures through the farmlands, is to find Augustine, who may have saved the grandfather he never knew from the Nazis. Accompanying Jonathan on his quixotic quest is Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks hilariously fractured English. The fabled history of his grandfather's shtetl, or village, is juxtaposed with events in the present using comedy interspersed with tragedy. Generations become united across time in this fanciful tale, as Foer, the author, gives the reader a contemporary version of 19th-century Jewish drama one that blends laughter and tears. Recommended for all libraries. Molly Abramowitz, Silver Spring, MD
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6
你是阳可,你爱布洛德。
评分你是阳可,你爱布洛德。
评分你是阳可。你爱布洛德
评分你是阳可。你爱布洛德
评分你是阳可,你爱布洛德。
Everything Is Illuminated 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书