Geoff Dyer is the author of Ways of Telling, critical study of John Berger; The Missing of the Somme, about World War I; and the novels Paris Trance, Out of Sheer Rage, The Color of Memory and The Search.
A wildly original novel of erotic fulfillment and spiritual yearning. Every two years the international art world descends on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among them is Jeff Atman-a jaded and dissolute journalist-whose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled partygoing is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story. When he meets the spellbinding Laura, he is rejuvenated, ecstatic. Their romance blossoms quickly, but is it destined to disappear just as rapidly? Every day thousands of pilgrims head to the banks of the Ganges at Varanasi, the holiest Hindu city in India. Among their number is a narrator who may or may not be the Atman previously seen in Venice. Intending to visit only for a few days he ends up staying for months, and suddenly finds-or should that be loses?-a hitherto unexamined idea of himself, "the "self. In a romance he can only observe, he sees a reflection of the kind of pleasures that, willingly or not, he has renounced. In the process, two ancient and watery cities become versions of each other. Could two stories, in two different cities, actually be one and the same story? Nothing Geoff Dyer has written before is as wonderfully unbridled, as dead-on in evocation of place, longing and the possibility of neurotic enlightenment, and as irrepressibly entertaining as "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi."""
發表於2025-02-23
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
沒找到想找的書,卻在書架上看到瞭“瓦拉納西”這四個大字。於是就把這本書藉迴來看瞭。 去過印度,沒去過瓦拉納西,但聽過N個版本對於這個地方的描述。很多的描述裏,那裏是內心修煉的聖地,感悟生死,獲得心靈上的自由。也有很多的版本,充斥著死屍、糞便和瘧疾。“有牆就是...
評分新建傑夫戴爾貼吧,歡迎喜歡他和他作品的朋友們入駐,一起暢談,一起分享! http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=%E6%9D%B0%E5%A4%AB%E6%88%B4%E5%B0%94geoffdyer&ie=utf-8
評分前前後後斷斷續續好像看瞭兩個月。最開始麵對著一大堆無比糾結的意大利式的ZB藝術詞匯頭痛。忍到後來看到熟悉的印度描寫,那些rickshaw,那些temple,那些惱人的pestering。很崇拜作者可以以如此幽默以及哲學式的語言寫這本書。雖然看到後來愈發地覺得他多多少少在調戲印度的神...
評分It took me a year to finally sit down flipping through it, worth the wait though: good read, very hot sex scene, and interesting art scene at Venice as well.
圖書標籤: Geoff_Dyer 英國文學 Fiction 英文版 英國 外國文學 外國小說 印度
還是更喜歡前半部分發生在威尼斯的那個故事。調情的段落寫的尤其精彩啊
評分Venice部分是一切都在上升、蒸騰,最後消失在水汽中;Varanasi部分是在下沉、浸沒,最後消融在恒河中。兩部分都特彆喜歡,看完心情復雜但又在某種程度上是純粹的覺悟。
評分Venice部分是一切都在上升、蒸騰,最後消失在水汽中;Varanasi部分是在下沉、浸沒,最後消融在恒河中。兩部分都特彆喜歡,看完心情復雜但又在某種程度上是純粹的覺悟。
評分Venice部分是一切都在上升、蒸騰,最後消失在水汽中;Varanasi部分是在下沉、浸沒,最後消融在恒河中。兩部分都特彆喜歡,看完心情復雜但又在某種程度上是純粹的覺悟。
評分Venice部分是一切都在上升、蒸騰,最後消失在水汽中;Varanasi部分是在下沉、浸沒,最後消融在恒河中。兩部分都特彆喜歡,看完心情復雜但又在某種程度上是純粹的覺悟。
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載