具体描述
A dazzling cycle of short stories by one of China s most revered contemporary writers and one of the world s leading artist-intellectuals.
An Empty Room is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin toappear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories written whileMu Xin was living in exile, this collection is reminiscent of the structural beautyof Hemingway s In Our Time and the imagistic power of Kawabata s palm-of-the-hand stories. From the ordinary (a bus accident) to the unusual (Buddhisthalos) to the wise (Goethe, Lao Zi), Mu Xin s wandering I interweaves plotswith philosophical grace and spiritual profundity. A small blue bowl becomes asymbol of vanishing childhood; a painter in a race against fading memory scribblesnotes in an underground prison during the Cultural Revolution; an abandonedtemple room holds a dark mystery. An Empty Room is a soul-stirringpage turner, a Sebaldian reverie of passing time, loss, and humanity regained.
作者简介
Mu Xin, born in 1927 in China, is among the last of his generation to receive a classical education. During the Cultural Revolution he was imprisoned for eighteen months and then lived under house arrest for several years. In 1982 he moved to the U.S., where he lived in Queens, New York, and only recently moved back to his hometown in China. He is the author of several collections of stories, poetry, and essays, as well as being a world-renowned painter.
目录信息
Xia Mingzhu, A Bright Pearl
SOS
The Moment When Childhood Vanished
An Empty Room
My First American Friend
Fong Fong No.4
The Boy Next Door
Eighteen Passengers on a Bus
Workers on the Street
Quiet Afternoon Tea
My Perfect Girl Friend
Fellow Passengers
Halo
Sounds of Drums from Lincoln Center
The Windsor Cemetery Diary
Michael and Michael
Weimar in Early Spring
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读后感
英文版的书刚刚上市。 美国《出版人周刊》给了一个“明星推荐” （starred review）。评论短文如下： Characters occupy a haunting world of ambivalence and moral decay in Mu's English language debut, a collection about people unmoored by the changes that took pla...
评分部分文章：http://weibo.com/2141239811/B55y4lGUg 狱中手稿部分：名优之死 I. Death of a Diva It’s ironic that in this dungeon, forced into the life of an ascetic, I should feel like St. Anthony. As long as I can mentally resist the temptation of illusions, ...
评分部分文章：http://weibo.com/2141239811/B55y4lGUg 狱中手稿部分：名优之死 I. Death of a Diva It’s ironic that in this dungeon, forced into the life of an ascetic, I should feel like St. Anthony. As long as I can mentally resist the temptation of illusions, ...
评分部分文章：http://weibo.com/2141239811/B55y4lGUg 狱中手稿部分：名优之死 I. Death of a Diva It’s ironic that in this dungeon, forced into the life of an ascetic, I should feel like St. Anthony. As long as I can mentally resist the temptation of illusions, ...
评分英文版的书刚刚上市。 美国《出版人周刊》给了一个“明星推荐” （starred review）。评论短文如下： Characters occupy a haunting world of ambivalence and moral decay in Mu's English language debut, a collection about people unmoored by the changes that took pla...
用户评价
“What interests me is not "things past" but how to achieve simultaneously two 'I''s' through remembrance: One is long dead, the other still living."... "There are two... relevant proverbs: One is: 'Life is found in a desperate condition.' The other is 'Put someone in the place of death so that there can be a rebirth of life.'
评分oh the healing power... thank god the wise man understood all my sentiments...I see it as a sign that I read the book right after the agony brought by him... kind of healed. really...thanks...
评分人是导管。
评分Faraway birthday...I miss you,sir.
评分非是童明先生不够优秀，然而英文行间依旧透着中文的翻译味，木心文字特有的韵感与节奏感荡然无存。《出版人周刊》的推荐评论也只是大赏木心的文革背景。西方的文评总是如此，对中国的趣味多半集中在文革上，买椟还珠式的审美。纵使木心行文只把过往当做远景，纵使木心极力隐藏自己、避免被贴上文革旧人的标签。
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