作者:
Adam Hochschild 出版社: Houghton Mifflin 副标题: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Congo 出版年: 1998-09-21 页数: 366 定价: USD 26.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780395759240
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...
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.
Hochschild was born in New York City. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964. Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would later write in his book Finding the Trapdoor. He later was part of the movement against the Vietnam Wa...
Hochschild was born in New York City. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964. Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would later write in his book Finding the Trapdoor. He later was part of the movement against the Vietnam War, and, after several years as a daily newspaper reporter, worked as a writer and editor for the leftwing Ramparts magazine. In the mid-1970s, he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones.
Hochschild's first book was a memoir, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son (1986), in which he described the difficult relationship he had with his father. His later books include The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey (1990; new edition, 2007), The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994; new edition, 2003), Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (1997), which collects his personal essays and reportage, and King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998; new edition, 2006), a history of the conquest and colonization of the Congo by Belgium's King Léopold II. His Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, published in 2005, is about the antislavery movement in the British Empire.
Hochschild has also written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. He was also a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Hochschild's books have been translated into twelve languages.
A frequent lecturer at Harvard's annual Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference and similar venues, Hochschild lives in San Francisco and teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is married to sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild.
这些年来，在上万堂课上讨论过这本书的中学老师和大学教授倾向于用弗洛伊德、荣格、尼采的理论，用经典神话、维多利亚时代的纯朴、原罪，用后现代主义、后殖民主义、后结构主义等诠释这本书。欧洲和美国读者不愿意承认非洲在世纪之交发生的灭绝种族的大屠杀，因为他们对《黑暗的心》的理解脱离了具体的历史背景。我们可以将这本书看作针对所有时代和地域的寓言，而不是针对特定时代和地域的书。这本书讲述的故事两三次被拍成电影，最有名的是弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉（ Francis Ford Coppola）执导的《现代启示录》（ Apocalypse Now），虽然这部电影的拍摄地不是非洲。但是，康拉德自己写道：“《黑暗的心》是一次体验……它超越了真实的情况一点点（也只有一点点）。”不管这本书作为一个文学作品寓意有多么丰富，就我们的目的而言，重要的是它准确、详细地描述了“真实的情况”：1890年，利奥波德国王控制之下的刚果，对那片土地上财富的攫取进入了狂热阶段。 (查看原文)
the darkest side of humanity
要不是因为豆瓣上看到a picture of a father lamenting over the severed feet of his 5-year-old daughter被震惊 不会去看这本书 也不会了解这段历史 可是看了就忘不了 自己历史知识太缺乏了。。。it requires power to have your story ...the darkest side of humanity
要不是因为豆瓣上看到a picture of a father lamenting over the severed feet of his 5-year-old daughter被震惊 不会去看这本书 也不会了解这段历史 可是看了就忘不了 自己历史知识太缺乏了。。。it requires power to have your story told. 多少人看过走出非洲，又有多少人看过这本书(I know it’s not the same thing but still)(展开)
the darkest side of humanity
要不是因为豆瓣上看到a picture of a father lamenting over the severed feet of his 5-year-old daughter被震惊 不会去看这本书 也不会了解这段历史 可是看了就忘不了 自己历史知识太缺乏了。。。it requires power to have your story ...the darkest side of humanity
要不是因为豆瓣上看到a picture of a father lamenting over the severed feet of his 5-year-old daughter被震惊 不会去看这本书 也不会了解这段历史 可是看了就忘不了 自己历史知识太缺乏了。。。it requires power to have your story told. 多少人看过走出非洲，又有多少人看过这本书(I know it’s not the same thing but still)(展开)
刚刚读完，谈下我的感受吧。 它不是简单的一本关于刚果被比利时殖民统治历史的书， 也不只是囊括了King Leopold II, Henry Stanley, E.D Morel等人生平的传记 作者恰到好处地以各个人物为出发点和线索，将他们的命运甚至是孜孜不倦的追求与刚果的命运联系在一起。 当你用心...
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0 有用 ZZ 2020-05-01 02:32:49
人物驱使的历史事件陈述，所以人物形象丰满。如果换一个朗读者，可能效果能更加好一点。后半部分听得有点仓促了。
0 有用 QuietAmbassa 2020-09-03 15:23:13
the darkest side of humanity 要不是因为豆瓣上看到a picture of a father lamenting over the severed feet of his 5-year-old daughter被震惊 不会去看这本书 也不会了解这段历史 可是看了就忘不了 自己历史知识太缺乏了。。。it requires power to have your story ... the darkest side of humanity 要不是因为豆瓣上看到a picture of a father lamenting over the severed feet of his 5-year-old daughter被震惊 不会去看这本书 也不会了解这段历史 可是看了就忘不了 自己历史知识太缺乏了。。。it requires power to have your story told. 多少人看过走出非洲，又有多少人看过这本书(I know it’s not the same thing but still) (展开)
0 有用 Jabberwock 2020-02-19 03:24:18
似乎所有的殖民地都被扭曲异化为诱惑其征服者尽情释放心中野蛮本能的女性形象，就连所谓的文明本身也是非道德的。
0 有用 Gincredible 2019-12-24 22:31:28
#85 page-turner! 大时代与人物传记完美契合；不过这个故事并没有比那些untold stories更残忍，也没有比那些已经被遗忘的事情更加令人印象深刻；下次去布鲁塞尔骑车大概感觉会更深刻吧
0 有用 GW_Parables 2020-05-14 10:03:53
讲的是比利时国王殖民刚果的残暴过往。各种striking detail了。想了一下..现在的铀矿和钴矿不就是那个时代的象牙橡胶嘛。外交援助的sugarcoat=资源和利益。拆尼斯的1带1陆..变相殖民+债务牢笼。国际政治说白了恃强凌弱了。西欧人很有意思..好多年前几个法国厨子私下叨叨就想从采购环节敲竹杠骗钱..也许他们看我年幼单薄还是个外国人不过那点劣招太无聊了打个电话就破了他们的局。纽约经常有那... 讲的是比利时国王殖民刚果的残暴过往。各种striking detail了。想了一下..现在的铀矿和钴矿不就是那个时代的象牙橡胶嘛。外交援助的sugarcoat=资源和利益。拆尼斯的1带1陆..变相殖民+债务牢笼。国际政治说白了恃强凌弱了。西欧人很有意思..好多年前几个法国厨子私下叨叨就想从采购环节敲竹杠骗钱..也许他们看我年幼单薄还是个外国人不过那点劣招太无聊了打个电话就破了他们的局。纽约经常有那种会五国语言所谓的欧洲旧时代的prince/princess..人前是金发碧眼身无分文一幅趾高气扬的扮相..人后就是被犹太老板炒鱿鱼..历史的趣味有时候就是这种bad karma吧。 (展开)
0 有用 Böri 2021-04-09 02:06:35
本科上课时读的作品。后来出了中译本。这本书对比利时当局殖民、剥削刚果自由邦的历史做了非常详尽的调查。
0 有用 v 2021-02-05 05:41:02
这段历史从一个小国家的国王缺爱的童年开始。我们看到人性里面的贪婪，恐惧和虚荣能制造出多少的恶。我们看到这样的恶永远都不缺帮凶。我们还知道，人类现在还有能力来重蹈覆辙。
0 有用 QuietAmbassa 2020-09-03 15:23:13
the darkest side of humanity 要不是因为豆瓣上看到a picture of a father lamenting over the severed feet of his 5-year-old daughter被震惊 不会去看这本书 也不会了解这段历史 可是看了就忘不了 自己历史知识太缺乏了。。。it requires power to have your story ... the darkest side of humanity 要不是因为豆瓣上看到a picture of a father lamenting over the severed feet of his 5-year-old daughter被震惊 不会去看这本书 也不会了解这段历史 可是看了就忘不了 自己历史知识太缺乏了。。。it requires power to have your story told. 多少人看过走出非洲，又有多少人看过这本书(I know it’s not the same thing but still) (展开)
0 有用 NoNo 2020-08-12 00:42:10
一段被遗忘的比利时对刚果的残忍殖民史，一切都是利益驱使。历史价值意义深远不必多说，可究竟非洲殖民化是否大势所趋不可避免则见仁见智？ #有点dry
0 有用 ROTCEV 2020-07-23 06:23:22
从极权社会到殖民政权到宗教极端势力，人类残虐同族的残忍程度远超其它任何动物。可见凶暴深藏于人类天性之中，并非某种文化、某个族裔、或者某种意识形态的专利。只要有相应的环境条件，普通人便无知无觉地沦为恶魔。最让我揪心的其实是最后一章，great forgetting，个体在时代洪流中就如微尘一般，加害者辩解说“自己才是最受折磨的一方”，历史书中殖民暴行被扭曲成国王的慈善，再多的苦难也飞速地被抹平、揭过... 从极权社会到殖民政权到宗教极端势力，人类残虐同族的残忍程度远超其它任何动物。可见凶暴深藏于人类天性之中，并非某种文化、某个族裔、或者某种意识形态的专利。只要有相应的环境条件，普通人便无知无觉地沦为恶魔。最让我揪心的其实是最后一章，great forgetting，个体在时代洪流中就如微尘一般，加害者辩解说“自己才是最受折磨的一方”，历史书中殖民暴行被扭曲成国王的慈善，再多的苦难也飞速地被抹平、揭过、忘却了，下一代下下代的人继续忍受黑皮肤独裁者的横征暴敛…… (展开)