阿瑟·高頓(Arthur Golden),生於美國田納西州查塔努加(Chattanooga),本科畢業於哈佛大學藝術史係,專攻日本藝術。1980年,獲哥倫比亞大學日本史碩士學位,兼修中文。在北京大學進修一個夏季之後,他到東京工作。迴到美國後他在波士頓大學獲英文碩士學位。目前他與妻子和兩個孩子定居馬薩諸塞州布魯剋林。《藝伎迴憶錄》是其發錶的第一部長篇小說。
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
整部小说的剧情其实很简单,就是一个底层女性奋斗追求真爱故事,然而带上了艺妓的标签,总让人萌生一探究竟的冲动。 艺妓回忆录是一个爱情故事,小百合对爱的追逐,从那杯甜冰开始,她余生所做的一切都是为了接近她心中的那个男人(会长)。 而事实上,故事结束前,小白和总共...
評分现在是我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,...
評分没有看过电影,不知道拍出来的效果如何,但相信有些书中非常出彩和重要的地方,是很难用电影表达出来的,例如那色彩纷呈眼花缭乱的和服文化,真是让我叹为观止了一把。书中对和服的色彩、质地、花样、款式、穿着方法以及什么阶段穿何种和服描写得很详尽生动。(这衣服真美呀,...
評分 評分每天地铁来回上班下班的几站路时间,每天几页,终于把这本书看完了。虽然这是一本可以随时停下来的书(以我的情况来看,不停下也不行,地铁站里的人流不可小觑),但是仍不失为一本情节十分吸引人的浪漫小说。 几年前,看过艺伎回忆录的电影。电影中的具体情节已经印...
beauty in the atmosphere
评分第一本讀完的英語小說 必須紀念一下
评分beauty in the atmosphere
评分老外寫日本的故事也不容易. 改變的電影章子怡心和鞏利的藝妓形象是給老美看的. 和日本藝妓形象還是有氣質的不同.
评分電影剛齣來的時候看的電影。前兩天偶爾淘到瞭書,抽著擠著時間讀完瞭。描述手法不錯,不過一到細節描寫,英文就沒有中文豐富。硬傷。
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