From Publishers Weekly Five monologues constitute this slight first novel, which begins promisingly but grows fussy and pedantic as it traces the methods of 18th-century physician Franz Anton Mesmer, father of hypnosis. In three of the novel's sections, Mesmer ruminates on his theories of animal magnetism and the scorn of rivals who charge him with quackery. He discourses on his healing practices, conducted in shrouded rooms where he strokes the thighs of patients to coax out their "universal fluid" while hired musicians (here, young Mozart) soothingly play. Mesmer grows entranced, even sexually obsessed, with his 18-year-old patient Marie-Therese Paradies, a skilled pianist suffering from blindness and melancholia whose cure he claims to effect. The remaining monologues belong to Marie-Therese and her father. The patient muses on her affliction, her trust in her doctor and her friendship with Mozart; Josef Paradies expresses concern for his daughter and fumes at the "fakery and nonsense" of "the pernicious Dr. M." Drawing on Mesmer's own treatise, the novel opens a window on a narrow vista of Viennese life but lacks the action and dramatic tension needed to excite the reader. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal In the Viennese imperial court at the end of the 18th century, a young blind woman undergoes treatment by Dr. Anton Mesmer, discoverer and promoter of the new science of "animal magnetism" (hypnotism). The patient's father, jealous of Mesmer, sets out to destroy the doctor but in the process ruins his daughter as well. Intriguingly conceived and exceptionally well written, this first novel compares favorably with Allen Kurzweil's A Case of Curiosities ( LJ 11/1/91). Both describe the same period, but they differ in their literary affiliations: Kurzweil's novel is picaresque, stepchild to Diderot and Restif; O'Doherty's is an odd hybrid of gothic romance and Enlightenment memoir. It's also extremely good, filled with strikingly beautiful synesthetic images in which light, memory, reality, imagination, new and old mingle as one domain of experience.- David Keymer, SUNY Inst. of Technology, UticaCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. See all Editorial Reviews
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坦白說,我一開始對這類題材抱持著一種審慎的態度,畢竟市麵上充斥著太多故作高深卻內容空洞的作品。然而,這本書的對話部分,展現齣瞭驚人的文學功力。人物的口吻並非那種刻闆的復古腔調,而是自然而然地流淌齣那個時代上流社會特有的那種帶著禮節性疏離感的交流方式。我特彆欣賞作者對於“未說齣口的話”的處理,那些省略號、那些戛然而止的句子,比任何激烈的爭吵都更能體現人物內心的掙紮與壓抑。讀到某些關鍵的場景時,我甚至會不自覺地停下來,在腦海中迴放那段對話,嘗試從他們謹慎的措辭中解碼齣更深層次的動機。這不僅僅是一部故事,更像是一份精密的語言學樣本,展示瞭在特定社會結構下,語言如何被用作武器、屏障,以及最終的救贖。它要求讀者必須全神貫注,任何一次分心都可能錯過構建整個敘事迷宮的關鍵一磚一瓦。
评分這本書的結構布局給我留下瞭極其深刻的印象,它並非采用綫性敘事,而是像一個多麵體,從不同的證人或視角碎片中摺射齣核心事件的全貌。這種碎片化的處理方式,一開始略顯挑戰,需要讀者主動去拼湊和推理,但一旦你適應瞭這種節奏,那種“自己動手揭開真相”的參與感是無與倫比的。作者高明之處在於,即使信息是斷裂的,但每段文字之間又存在著微妙的、幾乎無法察覺的邏輯鏈條,像極瞭細密的蛛網。我時常需要閤上書本,在腦海中繪製一張人物關係圖和時間綫,去確認某個側麵的陳述是否與另一個看似無關的細節産生瞭共振。這種閱讀體驗已經超越瞭單純的消遣,更像是一場智力上的辯證,是對讀者觀察力和邏輯推演能力的極緻考驗。它迫使你質疑你所讀到的每一句話,包括敘述者本人的可信度。
评分我對這本書的配樂想象力方麵給予最高評價。雖然它隻是一本印刷品,但我閱讀時,腦海中自動浮現齣瞭一套極其和諧的背景聲景。也許是維也納金色大廳裏略帶憂鬱的大提琴聲,也許是雨夜裏石闆路上馬車軲轆緩慢滾動發齣的迴響。作者對於場景的描繪,絕非僅僅停留在“在哪裏”的層麵,而是深入到瞭“那種感覺是什麼”。無論是對某棟宅邸內部陳舊的香水味、壁爐裏木柴燃燒時發齣的劈啪聲,還是清晨霧氣中城市蘇醒的微弱喧囂,都通過精準的感官詞匯被具象化瞭。這種強烈的沉浸感,讓角色們的痛苦、睏惑和短暫的狂喜,都仿佛成瞭讀者親身經曆的情緒波動。我甚至能“聞到”那種時代特有的、混閤著煤煙和昂貴香粉的味道。
评分這本書的封麵設計簡直是一場視覺的盛宴,那種深沉的藍與不經意間流露齣的金色紋路,立刻將我拉入瞭一種十九世紀末的、帶著一絲腐朽氣息的迷人氛圍之中。紙張的質感也齣乎意料地好,厚實且帶有微微的韌性,仿佛每一次翻頁都是在揭開塵封的秘密。我剛拿到手的時候,就忍不住在昏黃的燈光下細細摩挲,那種觸感讓人聯想到老式圖書館裏那些被無數雙手撫摸過的經典著作。作者的敘事節奏掌握得極為精妙,初讀時,你會感覺自己像個局外人,站在街角觀察著一切,但隨著情節的深入,那種被捲入漩渦中心的無力感和好奇心會油然而生。尤其是在描繪那些錯綜復雜的人物關係時,筆觸細膩得令人發指,每一個眼神的交匯,每一個猶豫的停頓,都似乎隱藏著比颱詞更豐富的信息量。這本書無疑是為那些鍾情於氛圍營造和心理刻畫的讀者準備的,它不急不躁,像一位老練的魔術師,在你以為看穿瞭把戲時,又拋齣瞭一個令人瞠目結舌的新角度。
评分從主題的深度和廣度來看,這本書探討瞭人性中一些永恒且令人不安的主題。它沒有提供簡單的善惡對立,而是將灰色地帶展現得淋灕盡緻。它關乎身份的建構與解構,關於社會期望如何像無形的枷鎖一樣束縛瞭個體的真實自我。更令人深思的是,它觸及瞭記憶的不可靠性——我們記憶中的“事實”,究竟是曆史的真實記錄,還是我們為瞭自我保護而精心編織的謊言?在故事的收尾部分,那種處理方式極為剋製,沒有歇斯底裏的控訴,也沒有大團圓的安慰,隻留下一片令人迴味的、關於“存在”本身的哲學疑問。它不是那種讀完就能立刻放下的書,它會像一根細小的刺,時不時地在你平靜的生活中微微作痛,促使你重新審視自己與世界的互動方式。這絕對是一部值得反復品味,每次都能從中咂摸齣新意的傑作。
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