Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England. After another stint in Japan, he currently lives in Ireland with his wife Keiko and their two children. In an essay for Random House, Mitchell wrote: "I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was a kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. I would probably have become a writer wherever I lived, but would I have become the same writer if I'd spent the last 6 years in London, or Cape Town, or Moose Jaw, on an oil rig or in the circus? This is my answer to myself." Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), moves around the globe, from Okinawa to Mongolia to pre-Millennial New York City, as nine narrators tell stories that interlock and intersect. The novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for best work of British literature written by an author under 35) and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. In 2007, Mitchell was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. Mitchell's American editor at Random House is novelist David Ebershoff.

出版者:Random House Trade Paperbacks

作者:David Mitchell

页数:509

出版时间:2004-8-17

价格:USD 16.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780375507250

图书标签:小说科幻云图英国英文原版fiction英国文学米歇尔

A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. Now in his new novel, David Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.

Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . .

Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.

But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.

As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.

读后感

一个月不到的时间，断续把《云图》这本480多页的砖头书搬完了。我果然是有很长时间没有那么快地看完一本书了啊，很多书就那样被我搬了一半就搁置了，回头再看都忘了说什么。 《云图》到底是有多奇妙？近一个月，没有看一部电影，甚至都没干其他喜欢的事情，就一头子扎进这故...  

合上将近五百页的小说，星美的身影固执地浮现于心，像故事中那只三维投影记录仪，一次次播放她临终前讲述的一生。她的脸庞闪烁着萤火的微光，那上面有疲倦，坦然，还有浅淡的忧伤。 时间是未来，地点可以推测为首尔，人物只有两名，提问者和做出回答的星美-451。后者是经过...  

因为喜爱这部电影，于是又读了这部原著，然后更加惊喜地“结识”了大卫·米切尔这位小说高手，如果还不能说大师的话。虽然上海文艺出版社的这个译本非常的“不善”，编辑质量更是几近“拙劣”（而且在译者也许是能力问题，但在编辑就绝对是态度问题了），不过这一切都瑕不...

合上将近五百页的小说，星美的身影固执地浮现于心，像故事中那只三维投影记录仪，一次次播放她临终前讲述的一生。她的脸庞闪烁着萤火的微光，那上面有疲倦，坦然，还有浅淡的忧伤。 时间是未来，地点可以推测为首尔，人物只有两名，提问者和做出回答的星美-451。后者是经过...  

1 小说中主要人物们出现的共同相似的胎记，有人解读成轮回的胎记，但这根本不是明朗的《米与盐的年代》，鉴于大卫·米切尔（David Mitchell，1969）的创作意图—— “情节、人物、主题、结构作为构成小说的四要素，其中表现情节和人物的各种手法已经被前人挖掘殆尽，主题需...  

用户评价

快速skim完了Robert Frobisher的信。导演对一些细节的改动比作者要cruel，但是戏剧效果无疑更加催泪了。。为什么要从bruges改到苏格兰？

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.” This is exactly that ????

丰富的语言想象力带来的阅读快感无可匹敌，让最后的长达几页的议论也没有说教感觉，为Valleysman和NeoSeoul创造的未来语言更是精彩；各个年代的故事向不同年代的不同文体的引用感非常微妙，对于稍有经验的英国文学读者都会带来亲切感 （Frobisher:"Said it was books I've come to sell." Cavendish: "Oh England! Too little acreage for too much history. In England, time grows inwards, like my toenails." Sonmi: "Why would a martyr refuse his judas?"）

没看完

带着中文版才看懂，古英语和编造的英语压力好大，小说的小说，这个构思很嚣张。