“The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few things that I remembered with outsize intensity.”
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past. Though he is navigating the busy parts of town, the impression of countless faces does nothing to assuage his feelings of isolation.
But it is not only a physical landscape he covers; Julius crisscrosses social territory as well, encountering people from different cultures and classes who will provide insight on his journey—which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul.
A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss, dislocation, and surrender, Teju Cole’s Open City seethes with intelligence. Written in a clear, rhythmic voice that lingers, this book is a mature, profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our country and our world.
發表於2025-01-06
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讀瞭很多Goodreads上的評論,發現許多人對此書的情節不感冒,大多是因為作為小說,情節並不像大眾小說那麼生動,而且涵蓋許多人文方麵的思考。作為心理學主修又愛漫無目的地走,喜歡聽古典音樂然後思考很多很多(和本書主人公結婚算瞭……),我無疑從本書第一行就深深被Teju C...
評分Teju的處女作,但是他試圖用文學去確認個體在曆史、文明和政治中的地位與角色,娓娓到來的文字其實是對所謂西方文明的質疑甚至是責問。而他對個人生活的迴憶和描述則是凸現個體生命在曆史長河中無可比擬替代的孤獨感。 他很年輕,前途不可限量。
評分讀瞭很多Goodreads上的評論,發現許多人對此書的情節不感冒,大多是因為作為小說,情節並不像大眾小說那麼生動,而且涵蓋許多人文方麵的思考。作為心理學主修又愛漫無目的地走,喜歡聽古典音樂然後思考很多很多(和本書主人公結婚算瞭……),我無疑從本書第一行就深深被Teju C...
評分讀瞭很多Goodreads上的評論,發現許多人對此書的情節不感冒,大多是因為作為小說,情節並不像大眾小說那麼生動,而且涵蓋許多人文方麵的思考。作為心理學主修又愛漫無目的地走,喜歡聽古典音樂然後思考很多很多(和本書主人公結婚算瞭……),我無疑從本書第一行就深深被Teju C...
評分Teju的處女作,但是他試圖用文學去確認個體在曆史、文明和政治中的地位與角色,娓娓到來的文字其實是對所謂西方文明的質疑甚至是責問。而他對個人生活的迴憶和描述則是凸現個體生命在曆史長河中無可比擬替代的孤獨感。 他很年輕,前途不可限量。
圖書標籤: 美國 小說 紀實 紐約 NY 記憶 英文原版 美國文學
越進入篇章越引人入勝。
評分1. A book about trying to belong, not wanting to belong. 2. Deals with the existential issue of self-recognition by bringing in average individuals, but in a way that transcends individual differences. 3. 每個人物都是不完整的,但是每個人物都是矛盾密布的。
評分美國人真的很喜歡Teju Cole 但是我get不到 不太喜歡這種想到哪寫到哪的 講immigrant那段有點冷漠
評分Death is a perfection of the eye. 散步漫想。開篇有提到群鳥飛過天空,結尾處自由女神像想到很多鳥撞死在這裏。鄰居太太的死,教授的死,外婆的杳無音訊,這座城市曾經埋葬的黑奴。主人公遇見同學姐姐這段提到的尼采手上的傷疤沒太看懂,是要錶達某種痛苦嗎?
評分continuous city?
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