On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22 , Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady." Over the next eighteen months, until his death in Houston on December 15, 2011, he wrote constantly and brilliantly on politics and culture, astonishing readers with his capacity for superior work even in extremis.
Throughout the course of his ordeal battling esophageal cancer, Hitchens adamantly and bravely refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with both eyes open. In this riveting account of his affliction, Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. By turns personal and philosophical, Hitchens embraces the full panoply of human emotions as cancer invades his body and compels him to grapple with the enigma of death.
MORTALITY is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined throughout with penetrating intelligence, Hitchens's testament is a courageous and lucid work of literature, an affirmation of the dignity and worth of man.
克里斯托弗·希钦斯 Christopher Hitchens,美国人,专栏作者、记者、评论员、随笔作家,《名利场》杂志、《石板》杂志、《新政治家》杂志、《纽约时报书评》和《大西洋月刊》等杂志的特约编辑、撰稿人,作品不计其数,还包括国 际畅销书 《神不伟大:宗教如何毒害一切》、《希奇22:回忆录》和《有待商榷》等。“全球百大公知”排名第五;美国《时代》周刊评选的十大“入侵”美国的英国人。他于2011年12月15日逝世。去世一年多以来,几乎每周,他还在被《纽约时报》和其他媒体提及或引述。
最让我感触的是作者在临终阶段仍然没有放弃批判的思考和探索,关于宗教,关于问候……他尽管痛苦,写下的文字却不露一丝悲伤和自怜,反而充满理性和睿智。 最后未整理成章的手记,更是残酷的展现了他临死前的身体状态,也让人更敬佩于他的意志力。手记戛然而止,好像仅仅是累了...
评分P6 伊丽莎白·库伯勒-罗斯(Elisabeth kübler-Ross)提出临终阶段论:否认-愤怒-讨价还价-抑郁-接受 P9 你肯定听到过这句话:人们不是得了癌症,他们只是据说在跟癌症斗争。没有哪位祝福者会漏掉那个战斗的形象:你能战胜它。这甚至出现在斗癌失败者的讣告里,仿佛你可以理性...
评分原载《北京晨报》2013年6月2日“人文悦读”版。 读家/李娆 本书是克里斯托弗·希钦斯写作的最后一本书。希钦斯在书中直面死亡,用最真实、甚至是残酷的笔触,生动地记录了自被诊断罹患晚期食道癌以来自己的心路历程:他拒绝了宗教的慰藉,一面积极顽强地尝试各种治疗,一...
评分“最狷狂的作家”克里斯托弗·希钦斯的“死亡”随笔 克里斯托弗·希钦斯供职的《名利场》杂志有一个著名的栏目“普鲁斯特问卷”,其中有一个问题是“你愿意怎么死去”?大部分人都希望安然、无痛苦地死去。加拿大女作家玛格丽特·阿特伍德说:“死于没有痛苦的疾病”,美国...
评分当编辑朋友寄来一堆新书,我仅凭标题,先抽出了这本《人之将死》。我对死亡充满了兴趣,对与死亡有关的事也充满了兴趣。战争、谋杀、遗言和墓地,这一切都令我着迷。在我看来,死亡最能迫使人们显露出真实的本性,去回答那些基本的人生哲学问题。 濒死体验像一次奇异旅...
对比看同题材且同是畅销书的于娟的《此生未完成》,更有趣味。【一个寻求安慰更多,一个寻求真相更甚。】算是中西文化之对比吗?
评分To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?
评分毕业论文的翻译材料,三天看了两遍。一个人边死边写书当真是太引人入胜,难怪印了三本都被开题的老师拿走了……@我的开题老师是极品……
评分Hitchens生前在名利场的最后一个专栏编辑而成,从无神论写到水刑,仿佛晚期癌症只是一个新的谈话的角度。结尾一篇零碎的笔记,未完成,翻过去就是太太写的后记,比Hitchens自己的文笔还要好,一样坚韧,直到最后的最后。
评分对比看同题材且同是畅销书的于娟的《此生未完成》,更有趣味。【一个寻求安慰更多,一个寻求真相更甚。】算是中西文化之对比吗?
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