阿瑟·高顿(Arthur Golden),生于美国田纳西州查塔努加(Chattanooga),本科毕业于哈佛大学艺术史系,专攻日本艺术。1980年,获哥伦比亚大学日本史硕士学位,兼修中文。在北京大学进修一个夏季之后,他到东京工作。回到美国后他在波士顿大学获英文硕士学位。目前他与妻子和两个孩子定居马萨诸塞州布鲁克林。《艺伎回忆录》是其发表的第一部长篇小说。
In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess.
We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. She is nine years old. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O'Hara. And Memoirs of a Geisha is a triumphant work - suspenseful, and utterly persuasive.
"Astonishing . . . breathtaking . . . You are seduced completely."
--Washington Post Book World
"Captivating, minutely imagined . . . a novel that refuses to stay shut."
--Newsweek
"A story with the social vibrancy and narrative sweep of a much-loved 19th century bildungsroman. . . . This is a high-wire act. . . . Rarely has a world so closed and foreign been evoked with such natural assurance."
--The New Yorker
现在是我kindle里的长期住户了,难得看完之后没被我立即处理掉的小说类。留着,再读。 好在 1)文字表达很美,语言很巧妙 2)作者作为西方人,对东方式的情绪把握得很好 3)虽然小说有虚构的部分,但是情节很顺畅(现在情节完全顺畅的小说不多了) 4)作为娱乐性很好的小说,...
评分每天地铁来回上班下班的几站路时间,每天几页,终于把这本书看完了。虽然这是一本可以随时停下来的书(以我的情况来看,不停下也不行,地铁站里的人流不可小觑),但是仍不失为一本情节十分吸引人的浪漫小说。 几年前,看过艺伎回忆录的电影。电影中的具体情节已经印...
评分 评分《艺伎回忆录》最大的看点在于它的异国情调,即对日本艺妓文化的呈现。尽管有传闻说,阿瑟·高顿的描写与实际情况相去甚远,但作为一部满足读者猎奇心理的通俗读物,这些已经足够了。 而小说的故事本身就乏善可陈,它的某些桥段让我联想到了一部少女小说——《长腿叔叔》,同样...
评分“但如今我已明白,我们的世界不再是无风无浪,一成不变。不管有什么争斗与胜利,我们都可以挺受过来。但很快就会散开成为一层薄薄涂料,正像水彩颜料涂到了一张纸上。” 这是书的结尾,小百合以平静的口吻诉说完自己的故事,正如她的生命也走到了尽头。 得到这本书...
老外写日本的故事也不容易. 改变的电影章子怡心和巩利的艺妓形象是给老美看的. 和日本艺妓形象还是有气质的不同.
评分My previous prejudice was discarded. A geisha's life was far beyond the struggles and truimphs. They at last made peace with strong emotions. Immersed in an enthralling world, I was impressed by the depiction of elegantly designed kimonos and taken back by the bid for virginity.
评分嗯 日本文化
评分第一本读完的英语小说 必须纪念一下
评分老外写日本的故事也不容易. 改变的电影章子怡心和巩利的艺妓形象是给老美看的. 和日本艺妓形象还是有气质的不同.
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