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.
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...
評分这个故事很流行:缅甸有这么一个传说:有一条恶龙,每年要求村庄献祭一个处女,每年这个村庄都会有一个少年英雄去与恶龙搏斗,但无人生还。又一个英雄出发时,有人悄悄尾随。龙穴铺满金银财宝,英雄用剑刺死恶龙,然后坐在尸身上,看着闪烁的珠宝,慢慢地长出鳞片、尾巴和触角...
評分这个故事很流行:缅甸有这么一个传说:有一条恶龙,每年要求村庄献祭一个处女,每年这个村庄都会有一个少年英雄去与恶龙搏斗,但无人生还。又一个英雄出发时,有人悄悄尾随。龙穴铺满金银财宝,英雄用剑刺死恶龙,然后坐在尸身上,看着闪烁的珠宝,慢慢地长出鳞片、尾巴和触角...
評分在未看艾玛·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...
評分中規中矩的遊記式紀實文學,後殖民式物語。全麵、深刻,有感召力,但沒有沉澱。不過這並非因為作者沒有同理心:隻能說拉爾金雖然有很深的亞洲背景,然而畢竟不屬於極權語境中的一部分,缺乏對這種敘事下的他者感同身受的能力。 當然,這仍然是一本瞭解緬甸的非常好的讀本。這個國傢與你國諸多相似之處,一丘之貉,一點不為過。
评分看瞭很久很久,一直聽著rice叔的unplayed piano。對比現在的緬甸,不知作者會有什麼新的想法。
评分這本應該是想讀很久卻一直擱置,真的讀起來的時候很快。快來源於:文字簡單;全是小故事。然後纔發現中文版是王曉漁翻譯,但我很懷疑它現在能否再版。 那些受迫害故事,讓我想起2666裏麵那些描述奸殺案的章節。內心受到的衝擊,以至於非常難忍,隻好迅速翻下去。種種,在這裏那裏裏都在發生的曆史的重演。 作者寫作這本書是在2004年左右,也即是在素姬還在斷斷續續under house Arrest期間。重點是以奧威爾的1984和緬甸歲月作為引子,以奧威爾在緬甸任職的時間地點為順序,找尋他的蹤跡。但,顯而易見,找到的是一個非常近似於1984社會的緬甸(2004年),propaganda、censorship……。當中也有提到羅興亞人,多民族國傢麵臨的種種問題。。
评分Keep the faith, and do not be cynical.
评分文筆流暢,超帶入性。
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