It is like your favourite post rock song - it starts pretty slow, flows like a stream,quietly, then at one moment, the beats are going slightly faster, everything seem to be having a direction, and you know it will explode in the end,which it does.It blows up into a supernova when you are getting a bit enough,then it dances and swirls...then stop.
Language is overwhelmingly beautiful, poetic and pure. The theme is rather interesting but it is written in a way which is too surreal for me to identify what Berger is trying to convey with Ninon and Gino's relationship.
“People go on marrying may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort ” Fortunately, we don’t have a lifetime here.
2 有用 遠濤 2017-01-18 11:16:58
"When time is pulse, as music makes it, eternity is in the gaps between."
2 有用 Doyle Frenger 2013-07-18 22:01:39
It is like your favourite post rock song - it starts pretty slow, flows like a stream,quietly, then at one moment, the beats are going slightly faster, everything seem to be having a direction, and you know it will explode in the end,which it does.It blows up into a supernova when you are getting a bit enough,then it dances and swirls...then stop.
2 有用 kubrick215 2017-11-08 21:11:37
有点唬人 但是很美。像Michael Ontaatje,无怪乎是他最爱的书。一本关乎 死亡 美 爱 历史 传说 记忆 黑死病 艾滋 痛 分离 重逢 性 家庭 的诗. 婚礼意象像电影 永恒和一日
0 有用 花鸟市场 2022-02-20 02:10:56
Outside the coach, silence, a silence of feathers.
0 有用 赞巴拉国驼商 2022-09-20 15:51:43 美国
美妙又轻柔的悲伤故事。第一阅读体会是盲人叙述者并没有很出彩,随之对叙述/元叙述真实性的讨论我也觉得很牵强——they come second hand only as 文学评论家finishing their job of being/pretending深刻。
1 有用 烤芬 2022-09-29 03:56:55 美国
So profoundly lyrical! 断断续续读了好几个月,时常有种时空错乱感,像是在读神话或民间故事,人和爱时而具体时而飘渺,非常神奇的阅读体验。
1 有用 Apricot 2022-10-18 12:40:55 美国
对Berger的感情有点复杂…… 一方面认为他是我所知的最具有诗性和人性的写作者之一,另一方面有时又对他过于匠气的文笔审美疲劳。尽管如此,这依旧是很了不起的作品。整个叙事从不同的声音出发,穿过希腊与意大利的河流与陆地,最终聚焦到婚礼中。对于未来、死亡、疾病的恐惧被冲淡,只剩下激情与爱意。/ 好喜欢Ninon妈妈在大巴上和百科全书编辑的相遇。后者在她睡着时下车,车马上开走,她付给司机一大笔钱让他再等两分钟。编辑飞奔上车,递给她刚买的糕点。他们一起享用,她把头埋在他的夹克里哭泣。他给她讲故事。在那瞬间,似乎所有绝望都不复存在。他的手放在她隐隐作痛的手指之上。
0 有用 Faithful 2023-05-18 01:03:08 美国
感觉写的更像散文诗,也难怪事翁达杰最喜欢的小说,依稀可以读出来《英国病人》的感觉。最喜欢的一句话:When time is pulse, as music makes it, eternity is in the gaps between.
1 有用 Cyberpsycho 2023-09-24 23:37:28 浙江
喜欢英文版每章前的塔玛!还有“My middle is a riddle”及所有中文无法翻译完全的美妙句子:在陌生语言中重新享受寻章摘句的感觉。
0 有用 孙温爷 2024-02-10 16:03:11 陕西
死亡的阴影几乎是如影随形的,它使得人和山川河流有近乎通灵般的连接,使得再寻常不过的事物也变得不一样了,使得人与人的关系去除矫饰直抵本质。结构,语篇,语言皆精心锻造,阅读中感觉到的微醺,困倦,间离,仿佛也是作者刻意为之,是到婚礼去,到死亡去的路途中体验的一部分。
2 有用 starry 2020-06-17 03:22:18
One of the most beautiful things I have ever read.
0 有用 a small child 2020-11-17 03:44:12
Language is overwhelmingly beautiful, poetic and pure. The theme is rather interesting but it is written in a way which is too surreal for me to identify what Berger is trying to convey with Ninon and Gino's relationship.
0 有用 PostBlueCrash 2021-04-06 16:36:58
“People go on marrying may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort ” Fortunately, we don’t have a lifetime here.