图书标签: 游记 Orwell 历史 Burma 缅甸 GeorgeOrwell 英国文学 旅行
发表于2024-11-22
Finding George Orwell in Burma pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply the Prophet.In stirring prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world's least free countries.
Finding George Orwell in Burma is a brave and revelatory reconnaissance of modern Burma, one of the world's grimmest and most shuttered police states, where the term Orwellian aptly describes the life endured by the country's people. A truer picture of authoritarianism than anyone has written since, perhaps, Orwell himself.
Emma Larkin is the pseudonym for an American journalist who was born and raised in Asia, studied the Burmese language at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and covers Asia widely in her journalism from her base in Bangkok. She has been visiting Burma for close to fifteen years. Emily Durante has been acting since the age of seven, performing in a number of stage plays professionally, in the community, and at the college level. Other performance credits include commercial and industrial voice work, educational live theater, and singing telegrams. She has been narrating audiobooks for over ten years. Her titles include the Midnight Twins trilogy by Jacqueline Mitchard, Casting Off by Nicole R. Dickson, Impossible and Locked Inside both by Nancy Werlin, and Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypus. She has also directed audiobooks, including the Earphones Award-winning performance of Heaven's Keep narrated by Buck Schirner. Emily resides in the Philadelphia area with her husband and two children.
George Orwll和Burma是卖点,吸引了我的眼球,结果Emma Larkin絮絮叨叨到最后几乎读不下去。不过前两章还是有几节亮点。
评分年度最佳读本之一
评分看了很久很久,一直听着rice叔的unplayed piano。对比现在的缅甸,不知作者会有什么新的想法。
评分All authoritarian regimes act alike, all authoritarian regimes fear alike - its own people.
评分中规中矩的游记式纪实文学,后殖民式物语。全面、深刻,有感召力,但没有沉淀。不过这并非因为作者没有同理心:只能说拉尔金虽然有很深的亚洲背景,然而毕竟不属于极权语境中的一部分,缺乏对这种叙事下的他者感同身受的能力。 当然,这仍然是一本了解缅甸的非常好的读本。这个国家与你国诸多相似之处,一丘之貉,一点不为过。
2015年9-10月我在缅甸旅行。时间距离这本书中作者在缅甸已经有10多年了。毫无疑问缅甸发生了翻天覆地的变化,但也有一些东西从未改变。 我在仰光的住处是印度人聚居区。这里离苏雷塔很近,离中国城也不远。这里年代久远,在我住的B&B傍边的小街道上都是殖民时期的旧式房屋,泛...
评分对局外人而言,缅甸是一个“密不透风的国度”。一方面是“风景完美如明信片”,另一面却是“拥有世界最差人权记录”。然而,“整个5000万人民遭到的高压竟然可以完全从视野中消失”——这让旅行者、同时也是新闻人的艾玛·拉金深为震惊:这一切是怎样发生的?而在此平静的幻象...
评分这篇书评所遭遇的,恰是对本书最好的评论。 国人向来喜欢看国际新闻,并给以羡慕或庆幸的褒贬,同时不屑于那些只关心身边事的某些发达国家人民。国人对国内新闻事件的褒贬,基本如出一辙条件反射似地因昨天、今天、明天所看到的消息而愤怒于时时完全对立的双方。不及真相揭开,...
评分在未看艾玛·拉金的《在缅甸寻找奥威尔》之前,我一直以为奥威尔的反乌托邦思想及著作源自西班牙内战,以及那个时期苏联所表现出的恐怖与残暴,比如阅读《一九八四》,脑海中便浮现出与老大哥形象对应的苏联或与之紧密联系的极权国家,缅甸则从未出现在想象性视野之中。但该书...
评分这篇书评所遭遇的,恰是对本书最好的评论。 国人向来喜欢看国际新闻,并给以羡慕或庆幸的褒贬,同时不屑于那些只关心身边事的某些发达国家人民。国人对国内新闻事件的褒贬,基本如出一辙条件反射似地因昨天、今天、明天所看到的消息而愤怒于时时完全对立的双方。不及真相揭开,...
Finding George Orwell in Burma pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024