亚当•霍赫希尔德(Adam Hochschild)出生于1942年,美国作家、记者和演讲家。他于1963年毕业于哈佛大学历史和文学系。迄今他出版了很多脍炙人口的作品,包括《回家路上:一对父子的回忆录》(Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Fat her and Son)、《特立独行的鬼魂:俄国人记忆中的斯大林》(The Unique Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin)。他的《利奥波德国王的鬼魂》一书入围美国国家图书评论奖终选名单。
【译者简介】
扈喜林,自由译者,内蒙古人,毕业于对外经济贸易大学,主要从事品牌管理、创新研究、心理学、小说等领域的翻译工作,翻译出版了《绿色黄金》等近30部作品。
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo--too long forgotten--onto the conscience of the West.
“世上没有比夺走他人的生命更大的权力。”设想一下,当你处在一片可以随意处置他人生命就如玩物的环境中,你是沉迷其中,还是要求他人和你一起如禁色禁欲一般能给人性带来快感的权力。弱肉强食的丛林法则是活在每个人的血液里的,只是那嗜血的本性需要什么来激发。 就如人类史...
评分读这样的历史,实在是有种很难描述的不舒服。不是书不好,而是太好了。 本书所描绘的历史事实不过是号称“文明开化”的西方人犯下的另一桩殖民主义暴行而已。正如作者所言,在英法德等其它国家的非洲殖民地同样有类似的罪行曾经发生,规模度和残忍度恐怕相比之下并不逊色,只是...
评分读这样的历史,实在是有种很难描述的不舒服。不是书不好,而是太好了。 本书所描绘的历史事实不过是号称“文明开化”的西方人犯下的另一桩殖民主义暴行而已。正如作者所言,在英法德等其它国家的非洲殖民地同样有类似的罪行曾经发生,规模度和残忍度恐怕相比之下并不逊色,只是...
评分才看了一半,评分这么高,获得了很高的奖项,按理说是一本重要的书,后期会有很多人看,为何翻译成这个鬼样子?英文的长句就是直译,没有主语,只有谓语,状语,宾语去哪里了,信达雅,达?没有人审核吗?里面很多长句子都需要重新组装,翻译结束后没有人试读吗?这么优秀的作...
评分可读性很强,写得像小说。讲的19世纪末比利时国王Leopold II在刚果的殖民史和大屠杀,被遗忘的暴行,康拉德“黑暗的心”的原型。
评分感觉给书打分都不会太苛刻,况且这本的确不错。读完Heart of Darkness过来读它,效果非常好。
评分可读性很强,写得像小说。讲的19世纪末比利时国王Leopold II在刚果的殖民史和大屠杀,被遗忘的暴行,康拉德“黑暗的心”的原型。
评分可读性很强,写得像小说。讲的19世纪末比利时国王Leopold II在刚果的殖民史和大屠杀,被遗忘的暴行,康拉德“黑暗的心”的原型。
评分"And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history."
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