The Dawn Watch读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 400页 | 2020 | William Collins |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GBP 25.00 | 2020-02-20 … | 2021-01-19 … | 65 |
A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today.
‘Enlightening, compassionate, superb’ John le Carré
‘The Dawn Watch will win prizes. If it doesn’t, there is something wrong with the prizes’ Guardian
Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a technological and communications revolution: these forces shaped the life and work of Joseph Conrad at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization as we recognize it today. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaysia to the Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world.
Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in London as an author. He saw the surging, competitive ‘new imperialism’ that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places ‘beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,’ and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals.
In a compelling blend of history, biography and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works: The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spellbinding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world – and through it to our own.
作者简介【作者简介】
马娅•亚桑诺夫（Maya Jasanoff）是哈佛大学柯立芝历史学教授。她的第一部作品《帝国边缘》（2005），获得了2005年的达夫•库珀奖，被《经济学人》《卫报》《星期日泰晤士报》等多家媒体评为年度好书。第二部作品《自由的流亡者》（2011），获得了国家图书评论非虚构小说奖和乔治•华盛顿图书奖，入围塞缪尔•约翰逊奖（现在被称为巴美列捷福奖）。作为2013年古根海姆研究员，亚桑诺夫获得了2017年温德姆-坎贝尔非虚构图书奖。她经常在《纽约时报》、《卫报》和《纽约书评》等出版物上发表论文和评论。
【译者简介】
金国，财经业人士，高级口译，历史爱好者。已翻译出版图书多部，范围涵盖历史、科幻、奇幻、艺术、经管等领域，代表作有奇幻作品《艾尔蒙哲三部曲》、科幻小说集《金星复古科幻》等。
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