Edmund de Waal is one of the world's leading ceramic artists, and his porcelain is held in many major museum collections. His bestselling memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes has been published in thirty languages and won the Costa Biography Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. It was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize, the PEN/Ackerley Prize and the Southbank Sky Arts Award for Literature, and longlisted for the Orwell Prize and BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in London with his family.
发表于2024-12-23
The White Road 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
这本书封面的手感相当好,非常细腻。但是不得不吐槽一下翻译,已经很影响阅读和理解了。理想国的书是这样的翻译和校对质量,还是很让人失望的。除去翻译不符合中文的表达和阅读习惯外,很多都是病句。觉得比起形式上的用心,内容上的用心才是根本啊。 一开始不愉快的阅读体验让...
评分翻译水平渐入佳境,整体来说文笔可读性一般般。原因还有一个就是作者在用英文写作时就已经开始用炫技的方法行文了,又是以小说的方式写的,所以翻译成中文之后读起来就比较别扭。而且本身无谓的描述太多太多,大部分的篇幅都可以跳过。 对于瓷器的知识性也很一般,各种瓷器传奇...
评分瓷器就是中国(China, Chine),关于瓷器的一切故事从这里开始。作为瓷国的国民我们对于瓷器的卓越早已习以为常,真的需要一个外国人来告诉我们关于它的任何事情吗? 对许多中国人来说,英国陶艺家、畅销书作家埃德蒙•德瓦尔在他讲述瓷器历史的《白瓷之路》中所做的,或许是...
评分翻译水平渐入佳境,整体来说文笔可读性一般般。原因还有一个就是作者在用英文写作时就已经开始用炫技的方法行文了,又是以小说的方式写的,所以翻译成中文之后读起来就比较别扭。而且本身无谓的描述太多太多,大部分的篇幅都可以跳过。 对于瓷器的知识性也很一般,各种瓷器传奇...
图书标签: 陶瓷 瓷器 友人推薦 传记-回忆录
Extraordinary new non-fiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international sensation, 'The Hare with Amber Eyes'.
In 'The White Road', bestselling author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or "white gold." A potter who has been working with porcelain for more than forty years, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected and coveted - and that would help him understand the clay's mysterious allure. From his studio in London, he starts by travelling to three "white hills" - sites in China, Germany and England that are key to porcelain's creation. But his search eventually takes him around the globe and reveals more than a history of cups and figurines; rather, he is forced to confront some of the darkest moments of twentieth-century history.
Part memoir, part history, part detective story, 'The White Road' chronicles a global obsession with alchemy, art, wealth, craft and purity. In a sweeping yet intimate style that recalls 'The Hare with Amber Eyes', de Waal gives us a singular understanding of "the spectrum of porcelain" and the mapping of desire.
★Review★
"[A] shimmering paean to porcelain . . . De Waal digs deep into the substance of his live, and what he shares is precious." ―Jean Zimmerman, NPR
“De Waal is a master of telling stories through material objects. He can see a vase and not only imagine the kind of room it once inhabited but the type of woman who might have brushed her fingertips across its lip . . . It’s de Waal’s own obsession―the man counts pots when he can’t sleep at night―that infuses the narrative with a true sense of the hunt . . . He is wonderfully manic in his research . . . He allows himself to get lost for weeks, to travel someplace only to return empty-handed―which makes for a true adventure and a pleasure to read.” ―Thessaly La Force, The New Yorker
“The White Road is filled with marvelous examples of storytelling, and de Waal has a gift for inhabiting his characters. Also, the historical material is interleaved with stories from de Waal’s own life as a ceramicist, which adds an extra and very welcome dimension to the tale.”―Christina Thompson, The Boston Globe
“At once meditation, memoir, and travelogue as well as history, The White Road is one of those unclassifiable books that simply astounds with the author’s infectious love of his subject . . . De Waal’s prose is both elegant and powerful . . . Despite covering so many places, so many historical periods, and so many themes, de Waal’s beautiful narrative voice and his love for his subject manage to shape this book into an almost seamlessly formed whole. Which leaves me with my one resentment regarding The White Road: It’s damned unfair that such a distinguished artist should also be such a great writer.” ―Kevin O’Kelly, The Christian Science Monitor
“De Waal reveals the depths and permutations of his life-shaping fascination with porcelain . . . [He] brings a historian’s ardor for detail and a poet’s gifts for close observation and radiant distillation to this exquisite chronicle of his extensive porcelain investigations . . . De Waal’s passionately and elegantly elucidated story of porcelain, laced with memoir and travelogue, serves as a portal into the madness and transcendence of our covetous obsession with beauty.” ―Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)
“A lyrical melding of art history, memoir, and philosophical meditation . . . In short passages of allusive, radiant prose, [de Waal] chronicles his journeys in search of both the materials and the history of porcelain, discovering along the way men as obsessed as he . . . De Waal's poetically recounted journey is a revelation.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“[De Waal] blends art history and personal travelogue in this immersive hands-on study of porcelain and its commercial and artistic appeal over the centuries . . . He enlivens his account with portraits of the people whose quirky personalities and entrepreneurial zeal advanced the manufacture of porcelain across Europe . . . A truly remarkable story.” ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“An immensely enjoyable meditation on what happens when the right mix of stone and clay enter the incandescent heat of a kiln . . . Journeying to Jingdezhen, Dresden, South Carolina, and southwest England, de Waal tells the story of determined experimenters who reproduced the magic the Chinese had mastered . . . [A] page-turning account, both sweeping and intimate.” ―Library Journal
真的太磨叽了,多抒情欠深度
评分真的太磨叽了,多抒情欠深度
评分真的太磨叽了,多抒情欠深度
评分真的太磨叽了,多抒情欠深度
评分真的太磨叽了,多抒情欠深度
The White Road 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书