阿瑟·高顿(Arthur Golden),生于美国田纳西州查塔努加(Chattanooga),本科毕业于哈佛大学艺术史系,专攻日本艺术。1980年,获哥伦比亚大学日本史硕士学位,兼修中文。在北京大学进修一个夏季之后,他到东京工作。回到美国后他在波士顿大学获英文硕士学位。目前他与妻子和两个孩子定居马萨诸塞州布鲁克林。《艺伎回忆录》是其发表的第一部长篇小说。
In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess.
We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. She is nine years old. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O'Hara. And Memoirs of a Geisha is a triumphant work - suspenseful, and utterly persuasive.
"Astonishing . . . breathtaking . . . You are seduced completely."
--Washington Post Book World
"Captivating, minutely imagined . . . a novel that refuses to stay shut."
--Newsweek
"A story with the social vibrancy and narrative sweep of a much-loved 19th century bildungsroman. . . . This is a high-wire act. . . . Rarely has a world so closed and foreign been evoked with such natural assurance."
--The New Yorker
1999年曾有青海出版社的中文版本。当年读过,以飱猎奇之心,对文本本身没过多留意,那醉醺醺的房子、灰如水银的眼睛是给我印象最为深刻的。历经数年,好莱坞要拍电影,我知道后很乐,匆匆翻了一下旧书。不久之后,99.com的编辑告诉我,作为影视同期书的新版书上市了。我第一...
评分不论细节真假,一个在美国混了40年的艺妓肯定比较无敌的,因此我愿意相信她的话。 女人何苦为难女人?可惜当人们处在一种封闭的环境下互相充满敌意时,他们相互对立的思想走不了多远的。小百合最后确实胜利了,“可恶”的初桃也沦为了低等妓女。如果是个故事此时终结确实精彩,...
评分现在是我kindle里的长期住户了,难得看完之后没被我立即处理掉的小说类。留着,再读。 好在 1)文字表达很美,语言很巧妙 2)作者作为西方人,对东方式的情绪把握得很好 3)虽然小说有虚构的部分,但是情节很顺畅(现在情节完全顺畅的小说不多了) 4)作为娱乐性很好的小说,...
评分不论细节真假,一个在美国混了40年的艺妓肯定比较无敌的,因此我愿意相信她的话。 女人何苦为难女人?可惜当人们处在一种封闭的环境下互相充满敌意时,他们相互对立的思想走不了多远的。小百合最后确实胜利了,“可恶”的初桃也沦为了低等妓女。如果是个故事此时终结确实精彩,...
评分在我读过的为数不多的欧美小说中,《艺妓回忆录》算是最对我胃口的一本了,可能我的口味太过东方,那种细腻的、娓娓道来的叙述,浓郁的艺妓文化、东瀛风情,只言片语里都有着浓浓的东方味儿。 在一个单追求阅读快感的普通读者看来, 这本小说具有足够的可...
My previous prejudice was discarded. A geisha's life was far beyond the struggles and truimphs. They at last made peace with strong emotions. Immersed in an enthralling world, I was impressed by the depiction of elegantly designed kimonos and taken back by the bid for virginity.
评分嗯 日本文化
评分老外写日本的故事也不容易. 改变的电影章子怡心和巩利的艺妓形象是给老美看的. 和日本艺妓形象还是有气质的不同.
评分beauty in the atmosphere
评分多年前看的电影,因为中国人演日本艺伎就很不喜欢。拿起书本的时候,电影情节已经忘得一干二净,但阅读过程中理所当然地用章子怡、杨紫琼和巩俐的脸去脑补了这些角色。有时候文字的确能比电影更细腻地表达感情,这本就是例证。
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