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发表于2024-12-23
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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo--too long forgotten--onto the conscience of the West.
亞當•霍赫希爾德(Adam Hochschild)齣生於1942年,美國作傢、記者和演講傢。他於1963年畢業於哈佛大學曆史和文學係。迄今他齣版瞭很多膾炙人口的作品,包括《迴傢路上:一對父子的迴憶錄》(Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Fat her and Son)、《特立獨行的鬼魂:俄國人記憶中的斯大林》(The Unique Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin)。他的《利奧波德國王的鬼魂》一書入圍美國國傢圖書評論奬終選名單。
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扈喜林,自由譯者,內濛古人,畢業於對外經濟貿易大學,主要從事品牌管理、創新研究、心理學、小說等領域的翻譯工作,翻譯齣版瞭《綠色黃金》等近30部作品。
敘述史實的過程中用真實的故事勾勒瞭很多有血有肉性格各異的人物,給原本枯燥的曆史增加瞭極大的可讀性,成就瞭一本鞭撻醜惡貪婪,弘揚人性正義信仰的優秀作品。
評分敘述史實的過程中用真實的故事勾勒瞭很多有血有肉性格各異的人物,給原本枯燥的曆史增加瞭極大的可讀性,成就瞭一本鞭撻醜惡貪婪,弘揚人性正義信仰的優秀作品。
評分感覺給書打分都不會太苛刻,況且這本的確不錯。讀完Heart of Darkness過來讀它,效果非常好。
評分"And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history."
評分感覺給書打分都不會太苛刻,況且這本的確不錯。讀完Heart of Darkness過來讀它,效果非常好。
是本好书,却没有好的翻译。不说行文是否通常,译者连基本的语法都能出错,有些译名隔几页都能译错,真的怀疑是不是译者亲自翻译的。看之前瞄到译者介绍就有不好的预感。 非虚构写作类型,大部分都可以当作一个残酷到令人蹙眉心碎的故事看,最后两章“胜利真的到来了吗?”、“...
評分 評分为什么要去了解非洲历史?亚当·霍赫希尔德在出版商面前四处碰壁,面对着几乎相同的疑问:当代美国还有人对远方穷国的过去感兴趣吗?但是《利奥波德国王的鬼魂——贪婪、恐惧、英雄主义与比利时的非洲殖民地》一书甫一付梓,便入围了美国国家图书奖最终名单,似乎印证了这段历...
評分才看了一半,评分这么高,获得了很高的奖项,按理说是一本重要的书,后期会有很多人看,为何翻译成这个鬼样子?英文的长句就是直译,没有主语,只有谓语,状语,宾语去哪里了,信达雅,达?没有人审核吗?里面很多长句子都需要重新组装,翻译结束后没有人试读吗?这么优秀的作...
評分King Leopold's Ghost pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024