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
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。
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,...
评分我不知道艺伎的“伎”字是什么意思,我只知道若写成“妓”没准被人笑话。。。 我说的是阿瑟·高顿的小说,我终于把它看完了。先看的电影,看的没头没脑,莫名其妙,以为美国的大导演胡乱窜改,后来才明白原来不是。只是这样的讲述一个特别名族的特别族群的故事,不用文字来...
评分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,...
记得是一本很优美的书
评分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.
评分电影刚出来的时候看的电影。前两天偶尔淘到了书,抽着挤着时间读完了。描述手法不错,不过一到细节描写,英文就没有中文丰富。硬伤。
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