A wildly original novel of erotic fulfillment and spiritual yearning. Every two years the international art world descends on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among them is Jeff Atman-a jaded and dissolute journalist-whose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled partygoing is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story. When he meets the spellbinding Laura, he is rejuvenated, ecstatic. Their romance blossoms quickly, but is it destined to disappear just as rapidly? Every day thousands of pilgrims head to the banks of the Ganges at Varanasi, the holiest Hindu city in India. Among their number is a narrator who may or may not be the Atman previously seen in Venice. Intending to visit only for a few days he ends up staying for months, and suddenly finds-or should that be loses?-a hitherto unexamined idea of himself, "the "self. In a romance he can only observe, he sees a reflection of the kind of pleasures that, willingly or not, he has renounced. In the process, two ancient and watery cities become versions of each other. Could two stories, in two different cities, actually be one and the same story? Nothing Geoff Dyer has written before is as wonderfully unbridled, as dead-on in evocation of place, longing and the possibility of neurotic enlightenment, and as irrepressibly entertaining as "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi."""
Geoff Dyer is the author of Ways of Telling, critical study of John Berger; The Missing of the Somme, about World War I; and the novels Paris Trance, Out of Sheer Rage, The Color of Memory and The Search.
英国著名作家、摄影师。约翰•伯格的学生。著有四部小说,一部关于约翰•伯格的书,一部关于D•H.劳伦斯的书,一部谈爵士乐的书,一部谈摄影的书,一部书评随笔集,一部游记集。《杰夫在威尼斯,死亡在瓦拉纳西》是他的最新作品,也是他的代表作品。
评分《杰夫在威尼斯,死亡在瓦拉纳西》的奇特之处,不仅在于其长长的、具模糊识别度的书名,还有它别致的结构。整部书由两部分构成,却不具备常见的连贯性,情节无联系,发生的空间一在威尼斯,一在瓦拉纳西,故事主人公亦无法确认是否同一人,因为头一个故事采全知视角叙事,主...
评分英国著名作家、摄影师。约翰•伯格的学生。著有四部小说,一部关于约翰•伯格的书,一部关于D•H.劳伦斯的书,一部谈爵士乐的书,一部谈摄影的书,一部书评随笔集,一部游记集。《杰夫在威尼斯,死亡在瓦拉纳西》是他的最新作品,也是他的代表作品。
评分前前后后断断续续好像看了两个月。最开始面对着一大堆无比纠结的意大利式的ZB艺术词汇头痛。忍到后来看到熟悉的印度描写,那些rickshaw,那些temple,那些恼人的pestering。很崇拜作者可以以如此幽默以及哲学式的语言写这本书。虽然看到后来愈发地觉得他多多少少在调戏印度的神...
评分前前后后断断续续好像看了两个月。最开始面对着一大堆无比纠结的意大利式的ZB艺术词汇头痛。忍到后来看到熟悉的印度描写,那些rickshaw,那些temple,那些恼人的pestering。很崇拜作者可以以如此幽默以及哲学式的语言写这本书。虽然看到后来愈发地觉得他多多少少在调戏印度的神...
邂逅:2013.6.18. SDA Spell and Bound书店; 旅程:2013.6.20.-2013.6.30.; 地点:德里各处; Don't like the way it ends and felt it kinda overrated. The capture of prevalent features of Venice and Varanasi is acrimoniously accurate, though.
评分The New Yorker book club 5月的選書就是這本. 喜歡Dyer的語言, 不喜歡主人公Jeff......
评分还是更喜欢前半部分发生在威尼斯的那个故事。调情的段落写的尤其精彩啊
评分还是更喜欢前半部分发生在威尼斯的那个故事。调情的段落写的尤其精彩啊
评分The New Yorker book club 5月的選書就是這本. 喜歡Dyer的語言, 不喜歡主人公Jeff......
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