John Berger is a novelist, storyteller, poet, screenwriter, and art critic. His previous books include the Into Their Labours trilogy (Pig Earth, Once in Europa, and Lilac and Flag), About Looking, and Ways of Seeing (all available in paperback from Vintage Books). He was awarded the Booker Prize for G. and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Lannan Foundation. Born in England, he has for many years lived in a small rural community in France.
One of the most widely admired writers of our time returns us to the captivating play and narrative allure of his previous novels—G. and To the Wedding among them—with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.
One hot afternoon in Lisbon, our narrator, John, finds his mother, who had died fifteen years earlier, seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose and with the openness to personal and political currents that has always marked John Berger’s work.
Having promised his mother that he will henceforth pay close attention to the dead, John takes us to a woman’s bed during the 1943 bombardment of London, to a Polish market where carrier pigeons are sold, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Along the way, we meet an English aristocrat who always drives barefoot, a pedophile schoolmaster, a Spanish sculptor who cheats at poker, and Rosa Luxemburg, among other long-gone presences, and John lets us choose to love each of them as much as he still does.
This is a unique literary journey in which a writer’s life and work are inseparable: a fiction but not a conventional novel, a narration in the author’s voice but not a memoir, a portrait that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the present, a confession that brings with it not regret but a rich deepening of sensual and emotional understanding.
电影院哭泣的人:电影可以把你带上去,再带回原来的地方。这就是人们在电影院里哭泣的原因之一。而人们在电影院哭泣的理由就跟买票进去的人数一样多。 母亲说:太迟了! 这句话涉及时间折叠的方式,这些折痕确保有些东西可以挽救,有些则不能。 母亲的...
評分我快要睡着时,它就用闪光的句子犒劳我。像古时候带着锦囊的诗人,约翰·伯格写出优美的句子,把爱和梦想变成时间、空间和有形的存在。“梦想搁在行李架上,收进背包和旅行箱里。”“每一份爱都能发明一套词汇,都能打造一处掩体躲藏其下。”他把锦囊中的纸片随意挥洒,它们掉...
評分电影院哭泣的人:电影可以把你带上去,再带回原来的地方。这就是人们在电影院里哭泣的原因之一。而人们在电影院哭泣的理由就跟买票进去的人数一样多。 母亲说:太迟了! 这句话涉及时间折叠的方式,这些折痕确保有些东西可以挽救,有些则不能。 母亲的...
評分我的2011年度之书。 1 《我们在此相遇》( Here is Where We Meet )由约翰·伯格在暮年写就,为悼亡录,“一本以七个城市串联而成的记忆之书,死亡之书,爱之书,成长之书”。我去台湾时买回这本,后来发现广西师范大学出版社已有引进版,译者同为台湾人吴莉君。 2011年...
評分起初只是被封面的电车吸引,似乎暗示着一段不坏的旅程。 害怕回忆录,因为一般的回忆录里充满了自恋和错误的记忆。 但这次没有以上弊端,更多的是克制。行云流水之间,细碎的片段变成珍珠,也许光芒没有钻石激昂,却温柔地招引着我们。 书后,梁文道说,这是“地志类”的写...
原來裏斯本成為我的下個目的地,是從這裏開始的。
评分用幾個虛構故事勾勒齣的歐洲城市遊記,我這種英語水平的人讀起來吃力。
评分非常喜歡這種安靜 娓娓道來的敘說方式 讀的時候總讓我想到讀川端康成的感覺
评分用幾個虛構故事勾勒齣的歐洲城市遊記,我這種英語水平的人讀起來吃力。
评分也就Lisboa比較有意思吧。
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