Things Fall Apart (美國學校用書)
Things Fall Apart (美國學校用書)
$525
ISBN：9780385474542
出版日期：1994/09/01
尺寸：206x134x17mm
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“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.
With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
如果生命的每一秒鐘都得重複無數次，我們就會像耶穌基督釘在十字架上那樣，被釘在永恆之上。在永劫回歸的世界裡，每一個動作都負荷著讓人不能承受的重責大任，但在這片背景布幕上，我們的生命依然可以在它輝煌燦爛的輕盈之中展現出來。
可「重」真是殘酷？而「輕」真是美麗？
最沉重的負擔壓垮我們，讓我們屈服，把我們壓倒在地。可是在世世代代的愛情詩篇裡，女人渴望的卻是承受男性肉體的重擔。於是，最沉重的負擔同時也是最激越的生命實現的形象。負擔越沉重，我們的生命就越貼近地面，生命就越寫實也越真實。
相反的，完全沒有負擔會讓人的存在變得比空氣還輕，會讓人的存在飛起，遠離地面，遠離人世的存在，變得只是似真非真，一切動作都變得自由自在，卻又無足輕重。
那麼，我們該選哪一個呢？重，還是輕？
——中文簡介摘自皇冠出版《生命中不能承受之輕》
