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The brat, the leftist, the orator
評分please. don't be dead
評分CH說words are weapons and stockpile them...通篇都在罵人抖機靈..這哥們是個stylist...words are his puppets...所以缺點完全可以原諒。blair和他辯論的那個很有趣
評分CH說words are weapons and stockpile them...通篇都在罵人抖機靈..這哥們是個stylist...words are his puppets...所以缺點完全可以原諒。blair和他辯論的那個很有趣
評分The brat, the leftist, the orator
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a matchless writer, debater and humanist. Throughout his life he shone the light of reason and truth into the eyes of charlatans and hucksters, exposing falsehood and decrying hypocrisy wherever he found it. With his passing, the world has lost a great soul, the written word one of its finest advocates and those who stand for freedom everywhere have lost one of their clearest voices.
Arguably collects Hitchens' writing on politics, literature and religion when he was at the zenith of his career; it is the indispensible companion to the finest English essayist since Orwell.
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"A short list of the greatest living conversationalists in English," said The Economist , "would probably have to include Christopher Hitchens, Sir Patrick Leigh-Fermor, and Sir Tom Stoppard. Great brilliance, fantastic powers of recall, and quick wit are clearly valuable in sustaining conversation at these cosmic levels. Charm may be helpful, too." Hitchens-who staunchly declines all offers of knighthood-hereby invites you to take a seat at a democratic conversation, to be engaged, and to be reasoned with. His knowledge is formidable, an encyclopedic treasure, and yet one has the feeling, reading him, of hearing a person thinking out loud, following the inexorable logic of his thought, wherever it might lead, unafraid to expose fraudulence, denounce injustice, and excoriate hypocrisy. Legions of readers, admirers and detractors alike, have learned to read Hitchens with something approaching awe at his felicity of language, the oxygen in every sentence, the enviable wit and his readiness, even eagerness, to fight a foe or mount the ramparts.
Here, he supplies fresh perceptions of such figures as varied as Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Rebecca West, George Orwell, J.G. Ballard, and Philip Larkin are matched in brilliance by his pungent discussions and intrepid observations, gathered from a lifetime of traveling and reporting from such destinations as Iran, China, and Pakistan.
Hitchens's directness, elegance, lightly carried erudition, critical and psychological insight, humor, and sympathy-applied as they are here to a dazzling variety of subjects-all set a standard for the essayist that has rarely been matched in our time. What emerges from this indispensable volume is an intellectual self-portrait of a writer with an exemplary steadiness of purpose and a love affair with the delights and seductions of the English language, a man anchored in a profound and humane vision of the human longing for reason and justice.
有奥威尔之遗韵,我最喜欢的当代英语杂文作者,没有之一。可惜英年早逝。 有关宗教方面的看法与我出奇地吻合,所以读来常有“把我想说的话都说了说的还比我好”之感,畅快淋漓。 另外他的辩论水平不低于写作水平,和各路宗教人士的嘴仗简直是吊打小朋友。嘴比Dawkins更毒,同...
評分有奥威尔之遗韵,我最喜欢的当代英语杂文作者,没有之一。可惜英年早逝。 有关宗教方面的看法与我出奇地吻合,所以读来常有“把我想说的话都说了说的还比我好”之感,畅快淋漓。 另外他的辩论水平不低于写作水平,和各路宗教人士的嘴仗简直是吊打小朋友。嘴比Dawkins更毒,同...
評分有奥威尔之遗韵,我最喜欢的当代英语杂文作者,没有之一。可惜英年早逝。 有关宗教方面的看法与我出奇地吻合,所以读来常有“把我想说的话都说了说的还比我好”之感,畅快淋漓。 另外他的辩论水平不低于写作水平,和各路宗教人士的嘴仗简直是吊打小朋友。嘴比Dawkins更毒,同...
評分有奥威尔之遗韵,我最喜欢的当代英语杂文作者,没有之一。可惜英年早逝。 有关宗教方面的看法与我出奇地吻合,所以读来常有“把我想说的话都说了说的还比我好”之感,畅快淋漓。 另外他的辩论水平不低于写作水平,和各路宗教人士的嘴仗简直是吊打小朋友。嘴比Dawkins更毒,同...
評分有奥威尔之遗韵,我最喜欢的当代英语杂文作者,没有之一。可惜英年早逝。 有关宗教方面的看法与我出奇地吻合,所以读来常有“把我想说的话都说了说的还比我好”之感,畅快淋漓。 另外他的辩论水平不低于写作水平,和各路宗教人士的嘴仗简直是吊打小朋友。嘴比Dawkins更毒,同...
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