“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2024-11-30
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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...
圖書標籤: 美國 小說 紀實 紐約 NY 記憶 英文原版 美國文學
作者前麵觀察、思考著大型人類災難和罪證,偶爾強說愁來介紹自己的身世,最後介紹瞭一位女性victim,和前麵的大曆史敘述形成瞭強烈的反差,用尼采的精神草草做總結。麵對受難的態度 就該是手握燒炭麼?最後的音樂會也是一個很好的基督教space。
評分越進入篇章越引人入勝。
評分The cities might have seemed open on the outside, but there are perpetual barriers on the national, racial, religious and individual levels. Had the writer not been African, he couldn't have produced such sensitive and intricate observations.
評分無比流暢的自言自語。
評分The cities might have seemed open on the outside, but there are perpetual barriers on the national, racial, religious and individual levels. Had the writer not been African, he couldn't have produced such sensitive and intricate observations.
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