具体描述
An exquisitely detailed portrait of a special landscape, this is a gem-like addition to the travel genre. Robinson, an artist and cartographer, has made prize-winning maps of southwest Ireland and adjacent islands. Describing himself as "self-appointed resident scientific busybody," he walks the coastline of Arainn, largest of the three Aran Islands, clockwise from the western edge, in an exploration of geology, topography, history, language and folklore. Arainn is limestone, and its natural forms are rectilinear. We see storm beaches--mile after mile of huge boulders stripped from the rim of cliffs and moved inland by wind. Robinson recounts hazardous sports once practiced by the natives--birdcatching and fishing from clifftops; he calls our attention to prehistoric sites and to abandoned forts. He takes a side trip by curragh to the Brannock Islands and meditates on the origins of placenames. Arainn's north coast was a center for kelp factories producing iodine and fertilizer in the 19th century; Robinson offers a vivid picture of that period as well.
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作者简介
"This is a heart-felt and informative micro-history, and a eulogy and an elegy as well. Robinson is especially good on Aran's once great but now vanished kelp industry, and all that was involved....this is a fine addition to a fertile genre." --The Times (London)
"A loving anatomy of the largest of the Aran Islands off the West Coast of Ireland, in which the point where nature and culture meet in the island is observed with great beauty and precision." -Colm Toibin
"Tim Robinson's maps and books honor the landscapes they describe. As invitations, they irresistibly beckon the archeologist, botanist, geologist, bird-watcher, folklorist, student of the Irish language, or just plain tourist." -Chet Raymo.
"Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage and Labyrinth...is a necessity for all visitors and walkers."--Guardian
"An exquisitely detailed portrait of a special landscape, this is a gem-like addition to the travel genre."-Publishers Weekly
"Robinson takes the reader on a meditative walking tour of Aran...[he] seeks the essence of an increasingly distant Celtic past...like a visitor peering through the warped and colored glass of an ancient church window." -Los Angeles Times
"A kind of travel writing The New Yorker sometimes sponsors: a virtuosity of gratuitous fact-gathering, a penitential recording of minutiae, a recitation of information as if it were prayer." -New York Times
"Looked upon with a tactful, eager, strategic care that is as tender in its address as an admission of love...It is a wonderful achievement." -Seamus Deane, London Review of Books
"The best book ever written by an Englishman about Ireland." -Independent
"One of the most original, revelatory and exhilarating works of literature ever produced in Ireland." -Irish Times
"Rapt, encyclopedic volumes...Robinson has done for the west of Ireland what Ruskin did for Venice, Proust for the voids and vasts of time." -Telegraph
"Climate and location, flora and fauna, culture, myth and legend, people, and over it all, the veneer of language and place name...Tim Robinson achieves this ultimate map in Stones of Aran" -New Scientist
"Wholly irresistible." -Observer
"This is a marvelous book--quirky and endearing, universal in scope yet with an extraordinary sense of place and purpose." -Sydney Morning Herald
"One of the most interesting and important books produced in Ireland in the twentieth century. In prose as layered and rich as the area he explores, Robinson deals with space in the way Proust deals with time." --Sean Dunne
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坦率地说，这本书的阅读门槛相当高，初翻时我几乎想过放弃。它的文字风格非常独特，充满了大量的长句和复杂的从句结构，仿佛每一句话都是精心雕琢的艺术品，每一个词语的选择都经过了反复的掂量与打磨，绝不使用任何可以被轻易替代的词汇。这种语言的密度，使得阅读过程必须慢下来，甚至需要停下来反复咀嚼那些精妙的措辞。然而，一旦你适应了这种独特的节奏和腔调，你就会发现其中蕴含的巨大能量。它更像是一部音乐作品，而不是单纯的文字堆砌。那些看似冗长的段落，实则是在为即将到来的高潮蓄力，每一次的情感爆发都来得精准而有力，不拖泥带水，却又饱含张力。作者对人性的剖析是极其残酷且诚实的，他毫不留情地揭示了人性中那些幽暗、矛盾和自我欺骗的部分，让人在赞叹其文笔的同时，也不禁对自己进行一番深刻的反省。
评分我一直认为，伟大的文学作品，应该能够拓宽读者的认知边界，而这本著作无疑做到了这一点。它并不直接提供答案或道德指引，而是抛出了一系列尖锐的问题，迫使读者在阅读过程中不断地与书中的角色、与作者的观点进行辩论和对话。其中关于权力结构和个体反抗的探讨，放在任何时代背景下都具有极强的现实意义。作者没有选择宏大的叙事视角去批判体制，而是将焦点完全集中在最底层的普通人身上，通过他们看似微不足道的日常挣扎，折射出整个社会的巨大张力。这种“以小见大”的手法，比任何直接的控诉都更具穿透力和感染力。我特别喜欢作者处理冲突的方式，很少有那种非黑即白的简单化处理，大多数矛盾都是模糊不清、盘根错节的，这非常符合我个人对现实世界的认知——复杂，且充满灰色地带。
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评分这本厚重的精装书，捧在手里就有一种沉甸甸的实在感，初翻时，那些密密麻麻的文字和看似随意的排版，着实让我有些望而却步。作者似乎有一种近乎偏执的钻研精神，他对叙事节奏的把控极其老道，时而如夏日午后的骤雨，噼里啪啦地砸下大量信息，让人应接不暇；时而又像冬日壁炉边的慢炖，每一个场景的描摹都细致入微，仿佛能闻到空气中弥漫的尘土和旧木头的气味。我尤其欣赏他对于人物内心挣扎的刻画，那些细微的情绪波动，那些在道德边缘徘徊的瞬间，都被他用一种近乎冷峻的笔触精准地捕捉下来，没有丝毫的煽情，却让人读后久久不能释怀。整本书读下来，像经历了一场漫长而又艰辛的旅程，它强迫你去思考那些宏大叙事下被忽略的个体命运，让你在合上封面的那一刻，感到自己似乎也随之被重塑了一番。这部作品无疑是需要时间和心力去消化的，绝非那种可以轻松翻阅的消遣读物，但其回馈给读者的精神财富，却是极其丰厚的，绝对值得反复品味。
评分这本书的装帧设计和纸张质感，完美地烘托了其内容的厚重感。我喜欢那种微微粗糙、略带纹理的纸张，它似乎自带一种历史的沉淀感，与书中的主题气质相得益彰。从文学技法的角度来看，作者对意象的运用达到了出神入化的地步。他能将一些看似毫不相干的自然元素——比如风、石头、海洋的潮汐——巧妙地融入到角色的心理活动中，使自然环境不再仅仅是背景板，而是成为了推动情节发展和暗示人物命运的活的有机体。这种象征手法的运用，使得阅读体验上升到了一个更高的层次，很多情节的深层含义需要结合环境的描述才能完全理解。它不是一本让你看完就忘的书，它更像是一种需要你不断回去翻阅、不断重新解读的文本，每一次重读都会有新的发现，因为它所构建的那个世界，有着惊人的深度和广度，远远超出了初次阅读时所能触及的表面。
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