Book Description
We live in a world of signs.
But not everybody has to trade in them...
Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs - a small blip in a huge worldwide network of desire. It is his business to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, occasionally fake them, and all to give the people what they want: a little piece of Fame. But what does Alex want? Only the return of his father, the reinstatement of some kind of all-powerful benevolent God-type-figure, the end of religion, something for his headache, three different girls, infinite grace and the rare autograph of forties movie actress Kitty Alexander. With fries.
The Autograph Man is a deeply funny, existential tour around the hollow things of modernity - celebrity, cinema and the ugly triumph of symbol over experience. Through London and then New York, Alex is sent on a paper-trail, searching for the only autograph that ever mattered to him, resisting the mystical lure of Kabbalah and Zen, and avoiding all collectors, commen and interfering rabbis who would put themselves in his path. Pushing against the tide of his generation, Alex-Li is on his way to finding enlightment, otherwise known as some part of himself that cannot be signed, celebrated or sold...
Book Dimension
length: (cm)23.4 width:(cm)15.3
發表於2024-12-25
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圖書標籤:
主綫太多:一心癡迷的Kitty和一手策劃的“死亡”;猶太喀巴拉體係和佛教禪宗;親密關係的構建和已逝親人的迴避。但任何一條主綫在書中尚未得到充分書寫就匆匆收尾。感覺Zadie Smith有意識地在每一本小說裏以一種新的文化/宗教身份進行展露世界的嘗試。
評分主綫太多:一心癡迷的Kitty和一手策劃的“死亡”;猶太喀巴拉體係和佛教禪宗;親密關係的構建和已逝親人的迴避。但任何一條主綫在書中尚未得到充分書寫就匆匆收尾。感覺Zadie Smith有意識地在每一本小說裏以一種新的文化/宗教身份進行展露世界的嘗試。
評分主綫太多:一心癡迷的Kitty和一手策劃的“死亡”;猶太喀巴拉體係和佛教禪宗;親密關係的構建和已逝親人的迴避。但任何一條主綫在書中尚未得到充分書寫就匆匆收尾。感覺Zadie Smith有意識地在每一本小說裏以一種新的文化/宗教身份進行展露世界的嘗試。
評分隻能說,比《白牙》收斂多瞭。
評分隻能說,比《白牙》收斂多瞭。
The Autograph Man 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載