图书标签: 游记 Orwell 历史 Burma 缅甸 GeorgeOrwell 英国文学 旅行
发表于2024-10-02
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.
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。
评分Not a big fan of Orwell, however, Emma Larkin only used him as a compass to reorganize her own journey of discovering this country, to find out the secret life of Eric Blair in his Burmese days, the reality about Burma. She expressed what the Burmese people could not express themselves, maybe a sad repetition of Orientalism?
评分Keep the faith, and do not be cynical.
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。
评分原来以为会是很深入的一篇游记,但是感觉游历以及思考都很浅,浮光掠影的走过george orwell走过的地方,然后也就是仅仅走过了而已。
两个月前中国新年,在去曼德勒和眉谬旅行前,向学生借了这本台版书,学生笑说,里面的汉语太难,她一直没能读完,不过这本书正好可以成为我的旅行读物。我怕弄脏学生的书,也没带着上路,终于在来缅甸的第十一个月,花了两三天得闲读完。 这本书的前半部分,读来不适。总觉得...
评分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...
评分本书作者艾玛·拉金,于2011年前用了多年时间走遍了乔治·奥威尔当年在缅甸曾经驻足过的地方,她甚至寻到了一些帝国时代的故人,通过他们回忆起当年这位帝国治下警察,曾在缅甸生活的吉光片羽;然而物是人非,当年缅甸还有着大英帝国的影子:英式俱乐部,网球场,能吃到西餐的...
评分美国记者艾玛·拉金在缅甸寻访了奥威尔的生活轨迹,后者是一位英帝国时期缅甸殖民地的警察,但随后做出决定,离开了这种代表帝国权力的殖民者工作并令人费解的选择成为一名作家。再之后的故事想必世人皆知。奥威尔写出了《动物农场》和《1984》两部杰出的反极权和乌托邦的著作...
评分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...
Finding George Orwell in Burma pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024