Brilliant Orange

出版者:Overlook Hardcover

作者:David Winner

页数:384

出版时间:2002-04-22

价格:USD 26.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781585672585

具体描述

Brilliant Orange is a book about Dutch soccer that's not really about Dutch soccer. It's more about an enigmatic way of thinking peculiar to a people whose landscape is unrelentingly flat, mostly below sea level, and who owe their salvation to a boy who plugged a fractured dike with his little finger. If any one thing, Brilliant Orange is about Dutch space, and a people whose unique conception of it has led to some of the most enduring art, the weirdest architecture, and a bizarrely cerebral form of soccer-Total Football-that led in 1974 to a World Cup finals match with arch-rival Germany, and continues with its intricacy and oddity to mystify and delight observers around the world.

"In the hot summer of 1975 Wim van Hanegem was offered the chance to leave his beloved Feyenoord and join the French club Olympique Marseilles. . . He couldn't decide what to do. . . So he turned to his dog: 'We can't decide. It's up to you now. If you want to go to Marseilles, bark or show me.' For several minutes the dog and Van Hanegem stared at each other. The dog didn't move. 'OK' said Wim, 'he doesn't want to go. We're staying."

The cast stretches from anarchists and church painters to rabbis and skinheads, and of course, to Holland's beloved soccer players, whose eccentricities are wryly detailed by David Winner through hilarious anecdotes that call to mind Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch. As idiosyncratic as its subject, quirky and provocative, Brilliant Orange reaches out to the reader from an unsuspected place and never lets go.

"Occasionally a book comes along that you fall in or out of love with on the basis of nothing more than the contents page . . . Brilliant Orange is one of those strangely informative books that will even entertain those who have little interest in either soccer or the Netherlands." (The Economist)

读后感

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It occurs to me that this book is very good! Cruyff should be viewed as one of the most influencial giants in the 20th Century's World. He was an epitome to the decisive transformation and development, or can be told "revolution" to some extent, of the post...

It occurs to me that this book is very good! Cruyff should be viewed as one of the most influencial giants in the 20th Century's World. He was an epitome to the decisive transformation and development, or can be told "revolution" to some extent, of the post...

It occurs to me that this book is very good! Cruyff should be viewed as one of the most influencial giants in the 20th Century's World. He was an epitome to the decisive transformation and development, or can be told "revolution" to some extent, of the post...

It occurs to me that this book is very good! Cruyff should be viewed as one of the most influencial giants in the 20th Century's World. He was an epitome to the decisive transformation and development, or can be told "revolution" to some extent, of the post...

用户评价

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这本书的文笔，说实话，我一开始有点不适应，因为它太“满”了，每一个句子都像塞满了各种意象和修辞手法，感觉像在阅读一首被拉长的、极其华丽的现代诗。但是，一旦你适应了这种密度，你会发现它背后隐藏着一种惊人的控制力。作者仿佛是一位精通色彩学的画家，用文字调配出那些极其微妙的情感层次。比如，书中描绘的那个“失落的派对”，那种喧闹背后的空虚感，是通过对灯光颜色和背景音乐声波的极其精准的描述来传达的，读起来有一种恍惚的、迷幻的体验。我最欣赏的是它对“记忆”的处理。记忆不是线性流动的，而是像碎片一样散落在叙事之中，每一次闪回都带着不同的情感滤镜，让你不得不去分辨哪些是真实的，哪些是被时间美化或扭曲的。这种结构上的挑战性，反而成了它最大的魅力所在——它要求读者参与到故事的构建中来，而不是被动接受。这本书非常适合在深夜，周围一片寂静的时候阅读，这样才能完全沉浸在这种文字的迷宫里，享受被复杂美感包围的感觉。说实话，我需要查阅一些词典来理解其中一些非常古典的用词，但那份努力绝对是值得的。

这本书的结构设计简直是鬼斧神工，我得说，很少有作者能将时间线处理得如此错综复杂却又逻辑清晰。它采用了多重叙事框架，你可以把它想象成俄罗斯套娃，一层套着一层，每一次揭开新的故事层，都会对之前读到的内容产生颠覆性的认知。故事发生在一个即将被遗忘的工业区，作者对那种机器的轰鸣、废弃工厂里苔藓的生长、以及仅存居民的麻木感，描绘得极其真实，充满了后工业时代的颓废美学。我特别喜欢它对“噪音与寂静”主题的处理。书中有些段落完全由环境音效的描写构成，让你耳朵里仿佛真的听到了那种单调而令人发狂的机械噪音；而另一些段落则是极度的安静，这种强烈的对比有效地烘托了人物内心的孤立无援。虽然情节复杂，但作者并没有让读者迷失，关键在于他设置了一些贯穿始终的、具有象征意义的物体——比如一个生锈的指南针，每一次重现都标志着主角心境的某种转变。这本书适合那种喜欢解谜、喜欢层层剥茧的读者，每一次小小的“啊哈！”时刻都让人满足感爆棚。

我必须承认，我一开始是被这本书的封面吸引的，那个设计感十足的排版和冷峻的色调，让我以为这是一本硬核的悬疑小说。结果，它给我的惊喜完全在于它对“关系”的刻画。它不是那种轰轰烈烈的爱情故事，而是描绘了三位核心人物之间那种微妙的、充满张力的友谊和竞争。作者非常擅长捕捉“未说出口的话”的力量。很多时候，关键的冲突不是通过争吵爆发的，而是通过一次长时间的沉默、一个犹豫的眼神，或者一封最终没有寄出的信件来体现的。这种“留白”的艺术处理，让整个故事充满了张力，让人忍不住去揣摩人物的心思。我个人对其中一位角色的职业设定——一位研究古代天文仪器的修复师——非常感兴趣。作者将他对精准度的追求，巧妙地投射到了他对人际关系的维护上，这种类比手法非常高明。这本书的叙事视角时不时地在不同人物间切换，每次切换都能让你对同一个事件产生新的理解，就像从不同的角度观察一个雕塑，每次都有新的发现。读完之后，你会觉得对你身边那些看似寻常的关系，都有了更深一层的理解和敬畏。

我读这本书的时候，感觉自己仿佛进入了一个精心构建的、但又充满荒谬感的平行世界。这本书的幽默感非常独特，它不是那种直白的、让你捧腹大笑的喜剧，而是一种渗透在骨子里的、带有讽刺意味的黑色幽默。作者对官僚主义和现代社会中那些无意义的流程进行了辛辣的讽刺。比如，书中描绘了一个为了申请一张“存在证明”而不得不经历的荒唐流程，每一个环节都充满了逻辑上的悖论，读起来让人哭笑不得，却又深感刺痛，因为它影射了现实生活中的太多无奈。书中角色的行为逻辑常常是反常理的，但作者通过对他们动机的深入挖掘，又让你不得不接受他们的“荒谬”是合理的。我尤其欣赏书中对“符号语言”的运用，很多日常物品都被赋予了超乎寻常的意义，使得每一次场景转换都充满了象征意味。这本书的语言风格非常轻盈跳跃，句子短促有力，充满了节奏感，读起来有一种酣畅淋漓的感觉，让人不自觉地加快了阅读速度。这是一部需要你保持警惕才能领略其全部精髓的作品，它让你在笑声中，深刻反思我们每天遵循的那些“规则”究竟有多么脆弱和可笑。

David Winner tried to establish a relationship between Dutch football and wider social culture in which total football started to thrive. He put forward some hypothesis which even least knowledgeable fans are able to fabricate. Then he started to patch together what other people said to support his own ideas.

David Winner tried to establish a relationship between Dutch football and wider social culture in which total football started to thrive. He put forward some hypothesis which even least knowledgeable fans are able to fabricate. Then he started to patch together what other people said to support his own ideas.

华丽的橙子军，我的奇葩翻译。

华丽的橙子军，我的奇葩翻译。

华丽的橙子军，我的奇葩翻译。