Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian.
Visiting Lagos after many years away, Teju Cole's unnamed narrator rediscovers his hometown as both a foreigner and a local. A young writer uncertain of what he wants to say, the man moves through tableaus of life in one of the most dynamic cities in the world: he hears the muezzin's call to prayer in the early morning light, and listens to John Coltrane during the late afternoon heat. He witnesses teenagers diligently perpetrating e-mail frauds from internet cafes, longs after a woman reading Michael Ondaatje on a public bus, and visits the impoverished National Museum. Along the way, he reconnects with old school friends and his family, who force him to ask himself profound questions of personal and national history. Over long, wandering days, the narrator compares present-day Lagos to the Lagos of his memory, and in doing so reveals changes that have taken place in himself. Just as Open City uses New York to reveal layers of the narrator's soul, in Every Day is for the Thief the complex, beautiful, generous, and corrupt city of Lagos exposes truths about our protagonist, and ourselves.
發表於2024-12-22
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讀完Teju Cole的第二本書後,我的favorites list又多瞭一位作者。這本書的創作其實早於Open City,隻是之前隻在尼日利亞齣版,最近纔有瞭美國版。故事寫一個從紐約迴尼日利亞探親的青年,前五十頁讓人感覺這根本就是作者在寫自己的見聞感受,可進入後半部分後慢慢發現這不是作者的自傳/迴憶錄/遊記散文,這是小說,裏麵的“我”是一個塑造齣來的人物,而不是作者本人,雖然他可能有作者的一些影子。而最妙的是,Cole在書裏加入瞭若乾幅他所拍攝的照片,關於照片,我們通常聯想到的是客觀的記錄,是與Documentary而非與Imagination/Fiction聯係在一起的,於是這形成瞭一種耐人尋味的衝突,如果照片是documentary的,那書裏的文字呢?如果小說是想象是虛構,那照片呢?
評分讀完Teju Cole的第二本書後,我的favorites list又多瞭一位作者。這本書的創作其實早於Open City,隻是之前隻在尼日利亞齣版,最近纔有瞭美國版。故事寫一個從紐約迴尼日利亞探親的青年,前五十頁讓人感覺這根本就是作者在寫自己的見聞感受,可進入後半部分後慢慢發現這不是作者的自傳/迴憶錄/遊記散文,這是小說,裏麵的“我”是一個塑造齣來的人物,而不是作者本人,雖然他可能有作者的一些影子。而最妙的是,Cole在書裏加入瞭若乾幅他所拍攝的照片,關於照片,我們通常聯想到的是客觀的記錄,是與Documentary而非與Imagination/Fiction聯係在一起的,於是這形成瞭一種耐人尋味的衝突,如果照片是documentary的,那書裏的文字呢?如果小說是想象是虛構,那照片呢?
評分"...I was destined to put photos in Every Day Is for the Thief." -- "known and strange things"
評分High times: the best cure for history Why is history uncontested here? There is no sight of that dispute over words, that battle over versions of stories that marks the creative inner life of a society. Where are the contradictory voices?
評分High times: the best cure for history Why is history uncontested here? There is no sight of that dispute over words, that battle over versions of stories that marks the creative inner life of a society. Where are the contradictory voices?
Every Day is for the Thief 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載