A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. Now...
A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. Now in his new novel, David Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.
Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . .
Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.
But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.
As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.
David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before return...
David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England. After another stint in Japan, he currently lives in Ireland with his wife Keiko and their two children. In an essay for Random House, Mitchell wrote: "I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was a kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. I would probably have become a writer wherever I lived, but would I have become the same writer if I'd spent the last 6 years in London, or Cape Town, or Moose Jaw, on an oil rig or in the circus? This is my answer to myself." Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), moves around the globe, from Okinawa to Mongolia to pre-Millennial New York City, as nine narrators tell stories that interlock and intersect. The novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for best work of British literature written by an author under 35) and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. In 2007, Mitchell was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. Mitchell's American editor at Random House is novelist David Ebershoff.
我梦见自己站在一家瓷器店里，一件件瓷器古董把从地板到远端的天花板间的空隙塞得满满的，以至于稍微动一下肌肉，就会导致几件跌落下来摔成碎片。这样的事情真就发生了，但是没有摔碎的声音，而是一阵令人敬畏的四拍D大调（？）和声，一半大提琴，一半钢片琴。我的手腕把一只明代花瓶从它的基座上碰下来——E降调，所有的弦乐器同时演奏，壮丽、出色、天籁之音。为了再多听些这样的音乐，我故意摔碎了一座牛雕像，然后是一座挤奶女工像，接着是“星期六的孩子”——空气中弥漫着狂欢的弹片，我的头脑里却是超然的平静。啊，如此动听的音乐！一瞥到父亲正在计算打碎东西的总价，笔尖飞快划动着，但是我无法让音乐停下来。我相信只要我能让这音乐成为自己的，就将能成为本世纪最伟大的作曲家。一幅被扔到墙上的巨大的“笑脸骑士”画像引发了一连串砰砰的打击乐。
Dreamt I stood in a china shop so crowded from floor to far-off ceiling with shelves of porcelain antiquities etc. that moving a muscle would cause several to fall and smash to bits. Exactly what happened, but instead of a crashing noise, an august chord rang out, half-cello, half-celeste, D major (?), held for four beats. My wrist knocked a Ming vase affair off its pedestal—E-flat, whole string section, glorious, transcendent, angels wep... (查看原文)
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0 有用 egg roulette 2013-07-04 01:51:32
form > content
0 有用 Janis 2014-01-25 16:49:48
没看完
1 有用 [已注销] 2012-12-03 09:08:47
快速skim完了Robert Frobisher的信。导演对一些细节的改动比作者要cruel，但是戏剧效果无疑更加催泪了。。为什么要从bruges改到苏格兰？
0 有用 无用猫 2021-04-01 14:26:19
俩礼拜就看这个了，中间还休息了一下看了几本中文书。近两年看得最累的书之一，但同时也是最回味无穷的书之一。
0 有用 farewell 2012-10-17 17:51:55
AMAZING!
0 有用 Cosmosvol 2022-12-18 20:59:32 江苏
喜欢
0 有用 大林煎饼 2022-11-11 11:18:58 美国
每个故事单拎出来都无聊，按再怎么精巧的模式剪裁拼接起来也还是无聊。把这本书强力推荐给我的人最爱读fantasy，云图的确像是读fantasy的人会爱读的书。但他说云图作者的语言一般，这点我不同意，像变色龙一样模仿各种腔调其实才是厉害的语言能力。
0 有用 oappoaop 2022-08-15 21:38:07
不是很懂陨石胎记 一本特别的书 角色都很喜欢（之前没有过）可能因为没有主角也没有分明的两边吧
0 有用 无用猫 2021-04-01 14:26:19
俩礼拜就看这个了，中间还休息了一下看了几本中文书。近两年看得最累的书之一，但同时也是最回味无穷的书之一。
0 有用 YourHammerGirl 2020-03-11 19:31:33
小时候就看过电影 我不是说什么，有些章节很平，但是星美+写信那段是真的好。写信那段我变成粉色了