Robespierre was only 36 when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Only a few months before, this pale and fragile man, formal, anxious to the point of paranoia, steeled by deep-held principles, had held centre place in the new Festival of the Supreme Being, wearing his sky-blue coat and decreeing a new religion for France. Robespierre and th...
Robespierre was only 36 when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Only a few months before, this pale and fragile man, formal, anxious to the point of paranoia, steeled by deep-held principles, had held centre place in the new Festival of the Supreme Being, wearing his sky-blue coat and decreeing a new religion for France. Robespierre and the Revolution were inseparable: a single inflexible tyrant. But what turned a shy young lawyer into the living embodiment of the Terror at its most violent? Admirers called him 'the great incorruptible'; critics dubbed him a 'monster', a 'bloodthirsty charlatan'; even his friends found him hard to understand. Ruth Scurr sheds a dazzling new light on this puzzle, tracing Robespierre's life from a troubled childhood in provincial Arras to the passionate idealist, fighting for the rights of the people, and sweeping on to the implacable leader prepared to sign the death warrant for his closest friends. No backdrop can match the French revolution: it burns with human interest. As Scurr says, "More than haunting, it obsesses, because it will not lie down and die". Her brilliant, probing narrative brings the Revolution and its chilling hero to fiery life once again, helping us to understand how ideals and fanaticism can so often go hand in hand, as they still do today.
語言清晰流暢，對於蘿蔔絲的生平有比較詳盡的cover，對他的評價比起某些人來說也算客觀，但是實際上梳理蘿蔔生平早有大量先例，Fatal Purity這個說法也沒有什麼新意。要從意識形態purity帶來政治恐怖這種視角去看蘿蔔絲，還不如讀Carol Blum的Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue。看在文筆不錯而且我還蠻喜歡Fatal Purity這個詞的份上，勉強給...語言清晰流暢，對於蘿蔔絲的生平有比較詳盡的cover，對他的評價比起某些人來說也算客觀，但是實際上梳理蘿蔔生平早有大量先例，Fatal Purity這個說法也沒有什麼新意。要從意識形態purity帶來政治恐怖這種視角去看蘿蔔絲，還不如讀Carol Blum的Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue。看在文筆不錯而且我還蠻喜歡Fatal Purity這個詞的份上，勉強給個三星半吧。(展开)
烈酒与清茶
商务印书馆2015版
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商务印书馆2015版
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語言清晰流暢，對於蘿蔔絲的生平有比較詳盡的cover，對他的評價比起某些人來說也算客觀，但是實際上梳理蘿蔔生平早有大量先例，Fatal Purity這個說法也沒有什麼新意。要從意識形態purity帶來政治恐怖這種視角去看蘿蔔絲，還不如讀Carol Blum的Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue。看在文筆不錯而且我還蠻喜歡Fatal Purity這個詞的份上，勉強給... 語言清晰流暢，對於蘿蔔絲的生平有比較詳盡的cover，對他的評價比起某些人來說也算客觀，但是實際上梳理蘿蔔生平早有大量先例，Fatal Purity這個說法也沒有什麼新意。要從意識形態purity帶來政治恐怖這種視角去看蘿蔔絲，還不如讀Carol Blum的Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue。看在文筆不錯而且我還蠻喜歡Fatal Purity這個詞的份上，勉強給個三星半吧。 (展开)