When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through literature, of the lunar Japan that still lives on behind the rising sun of geopolitical power. All this he did. And then he met Sachiko. Vivacious, attractive, thoroughly educated, speaking English enthusiastically if eccentrically, the wife of a Japanese "salaryman" who seldom left the office before 10 P.M., Sachiko was as conversant with tea ceremony and classical Japanese literature as with rock music, Goethe, and Vivaldi. With the lightness of touch that made Video Night in Kathmandu so captivating, Pico Iyer fashions from their relationship a marvelously ironic yet heartfelt book that is at once a portrait of cross-cultural infatuation -- and misunderstanding -- and a delightfully fresh way of seeing both the old Japan and the very new. "[Iyer] is a sharp-eyed and thoughtful observer, and he is successful in evoking the life of Kyoto's malls, temples, and back streets, moonlit nights on the water, and the vulgarity of the Westernized nightclub and amusement quarter." -- New Yorker "Pico Iyers remarkable talent is enough justification for going anywhere in the world he fancies." -- Washington Post Book World
發表於2024-12-27
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Pico Iyer是西方很受尊敬的旅行作傢,強烈的後現代寫作風格。經常見到整頁的華麗詞藻,卻不解其意。 本書的亮點是作者對日本的很多文化和現象有新發現或者獨到的評論,也有不少妙語。例如 --Christmas cake --> metaphor of women's age "Which is why girls over the age of 25...
評分Pico Iyer是西方很受尊敬的旅行作傢,強烈的後現代寫作風格。經常見到整頁的華麗詞藻,卻不解其意。 本書的亮點是作者對日本的很多文化和現象有新發現或者獨到的評論,也有不少妙語。例如 --Christmas cake --> metaphor of women's age "Which is why girls over the age of 25...
評分Pico Iyer是西方很受尊敬的旅行作傢,強烈的後現代寫作風格。經常見到整頁的華麗詞藻,卻不解其意。 本書的亮點是作者對日本的很多文化和現象有新發現或者獨到的評論,也有不少妙語。例如 --Christmas cake --> metaphor of women's age "Which is why girls over the age of 25...
評分兩年半以後,再讀當年棄下的書,完成瞭全書,纔發覺Pico Iyer的真,遣詞的功夫雖強,卻不曾浮於內容之上。 當年的書評鄙陋瞭。追發兩句。 我很確信,這是一本我經常會想重溫的書,喜歡它所描繪的意境。 希望會有更多的人來關注這本書。
評分Pico Iyer是西方很受尊敬的旅行作傢,強烈的後現代寫作風格。經常見到整頁的華麗詞藻,卻不解其意。 本書的亮點是作者對日本的很多文化和現象有新發現或者獨到的評論,也有不少妙語。例如 --Christmas cake --> metaphor of women's age "Which is why girls over the age of 25...
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orientalist fascination with buddhism and japanese women, but pretty intelligent outsider's anthropological look at japan through sachiko.
評分夏鞦之交適閤讀遊記
評分orientalist fascination with buddhism and japanese women, but pretty intelligent outsider's anthropological look at japan through sachiko.
評分夏鞦之交適閤讀遊記
評分orientalist fascination with buddhism and japanese women, but pretty intelligent outsider's anthropological look at japan through sachiko.
The Lady and the Monk 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載