'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordina...
'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe and to explain the individual meaning of grand political abstractions.
The concept of totality exists in theory, but never in life. in even the best-built wall, there is a chink (or we hope there is, and that means something). Even when we have the feelingthat nothing works anymore, something works and makes a minimal existence possible. Even if there's an ocean of evil around us, green and fertile islets will poke above the water. They can be seen, they are on the horizon. Even the worst situation in which we can find ourselves breaks down into elements that include something for us to grab hold of, like the branch of a bush that grows on the bank, to avoid being sucked to the bottom by the whirlpool. That chink, that island, that branch sustain us on the surface of existence. (查看原文)
For several centuries Portugal directed its best elements to Brazil, its worst to Angola. Angola was a penal colony, the place of deportation for all manner of criminals and outcasts, for all those referred to as the país dos degredadoes, the country of the deported, the expelled, the finished. The low quality of Angola's colonists helped Angola become one of the most backward of African countries. (查看原文)
在一开始，Ryszard就说这可能是他最个人化的一本书。从字里行间透露出来的不是前作中身为记者的专业和冷静，而是一个外国平民在安哥拉混乱局势中产生的忧虑和无奈，对于自身角色的质疑和confusão 还有目睹杀戮和死亡的悲恸和恐惧。正如作者所言，葡萄牙人把自己最坏的部分带到了安哥拉，所以这个黑奴贸易的中心更显悲剧，三十多年的内战只是军阀争权夺利的手段，牺牲的永远是手无寸铁的普通人。而这些小人物往往死...在一开始，Ryszard就说这可能是他最个人化的一本书。从字里行间透露出来的不是前作中身为记者的专业和冷静，而是一个外国平民在安哥拉混乱局势中产生的忧虑和无奈，对于自身角色的质疑和confusão 还有目睹杀戮和死亡的悲恸和恐惧。正如作者所言，葡萄牙人把自己最坏的部分带到了安哥拉，所以这个黑奴贸易的中心更显悲剧，三十多年的内战只是军阀争权夺利的手段，牺牲的永远是手无寸铁的普通人。而这些小人物往往死得不明不白。作者描述他失去熟人和好友的部分格外动人，特别是掩护外国记者被炸死的女军官；直接援引自己的电报内容，则最有信息量和代入感；其他内容相比于The shadow of the sun，就太过琐碎和狭隘(展开)
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1 有用 半个桃李林檎 2015-05-20 17:06:51
在一开始，Ryszard就说这可能是他最个人化的一本书。从字里行间透露出来的不是前作中身为记者的专业和冷静，而是一个外国平民在安哥拉混乱局势中产生的忧虑和无奈，对于自身角色的质疑和confusão 还有目睹杀戮和死亡的悲恸和恐惧。正如作者所言，葡萄牙人把自己最坏的部分带到了安哥拉，所以这个黑奴贸易的中心更显悲剧，三十多年的内战只是军阀争权夺利的手段，牺牲的永远是手无寸铁的普通人。而这些小人物往往死... 在一开始，Ryszard就说这可能是他最个人化的一本书。从字里行间透露出来的不是前作中身为记者的专业和冷静，而是一个外国平民在安哥拉混乱局势中产生的忧虑和无奈，对于自身角色的质疑和confusão 还有目睹杀戮和死亡的悲恸和恐惧。正如作者所言，葡萄牙人把自己最坏的部分带到了安哥拉，所以这个黑奴贸易的中心更显悲剧，三十多年的内战只是军阀争权夺利的手段，牺牲的永远是手无寸铁的普通人。而这些小人物往往死得不明不白。作者描述他失去熟人和好友的部分格外动人，特别是掩护外国记者被炸死的女军官；直接援引自己的电报内容，则最有信息量和代入感；其他内容相比于The shadow of the sun，就太过琐碎和狭隘 (展开)
0 有用 宅饮 2023-11-26 09:46:52 吉林
点亮一小块非洲阅读地图
0 有用 胡文塔多 2024-05-06 14:42:54 上海
波兰记者兼作家卡普钦斯基1975年夏秋安哥拉内战见闻感想。葡人和其他欧洲人集体逃离罗安达；“前线”见闻：罗安达-本格拉-卢班戈-翁吉瓦；南非人进军罗安达，古巴增援兵火，内图按时宣告独立；安哥拉国家概况和解放运动时间线；回望、现状和怀想（1976-2000）。
0 有用 燃姐 2021-04-10 06:59:27
看的电影 因为前几天看了一本书 《A long walk to water》 苏丹内战一个男孩亲历的故事 这部更加让我们对非洲 对战争有了更深刻的思考 忘不了那个还差一岁就20的女孩
0 有用 格雷西西西西 2020-11-25 08:24:30
补档：Media genres老师让读的 最后考试还问了对这书的看法 老师给了满分哈哈 我总觉得这书写的真真假假 虚虚实实