孤獨及其所創造的

by Paul Auster

Paul Auster 一直是我很喜歡的作者。 
這本書我2011年書展時就買了，直到現在才拿來讀。這本書作者的寫作手法跟微物之神有異曲同工之妙 (不是情節)，都有一粒沙一世界般的奧妙。沒有像微物之神那麼樣地充滿華麗詞藻的推砌與細膩雕琢，比較平實文字敘述讓我比閱讀微物之神時更能體會到作者想闡述想表達的意念。是一本看完之後需要好好思考與自己獨處的書，說不出給了我什麼樣的大道理但是卻震撼了我的小宇宙，產生無法言喻的感動 。也可能是我常常花太多時間在與自己獨處所以有容易有共鳴吧。 
這時候很恨自己的對語言文字地操控能力這麼差，無法在將閱讀這本書時所激盪出來電光火石的想法確切的表達並文字化…但是我今早終於有一個比較明確的想法，就是分享給妳。 

• The Redeemer
• 作者Jo Nesbø
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Although the Devil's star does not raise me too much impression but the Snowman which I found that Jo Nesbo's writing skills and the way he tells a suspicious fiction advanced a lot! He really nailed it and caught the readers’ full attention on Harry Hole's series.  Jo Nebo really surprised me and re-raised my admiration for his works after I finished reading The Snowman. 

But I can't understand Taiwanese publisher's logic. They published the Snowman in traditional Chinese version right after The Devil's star but skips The Redeemer!! 

While reading The Snowman in Chinese version, I found that two of my favorite characters no longer existed in continuous series. It killed me and made me eager to know what exactly happened to them between The Snowman and the Devil's Star. And why on earth the Taiwanese publisher skips The Redeemer? Out of great eager to find out what happened to those two characters, I booked The Redeemer online and waited for over 3 weeks transportation from UK; I finally got closer to the truth of Halvorsen and the boss. Then I started to read the crime fiction in English for the first time. 

If there is no necessary I always avoid to read in English. But Jo Nesbo's work piece really forces me to make exceptions! Even if reading The Redeemer in English, I still can sense more and more tension shown in plots and sometimes so I am addicted deeply into the plot twists that Jo Nesbo played with. It seems that Jo Nesbo is showing off his writing technique by putting so many twist plot in the story. And I am not shame to admit that I totally felt for it.

Just when I finished the chapter 34 and thought the whole story was about to come to the end and the truth of Halvorsen's death had had resolved. Then Jo Nesbo threw another bomb in the final chapter to reverse the unsolved smuggling case throughout the previous Harry Hole series in Oslo.

Jo Nesbo really knows how to tell a suspicious fiction intensively absorbing readers' attention.  The redeemer is my favorite Harry Hole series by far, and now I am totally obsessed with Harry Hole's series and Jo Nesbo's fascinating work pieces.

這次我看的第一本哈金的短篇小說

可能對於哈金高知名度與多產暢銷歷史有著過多的期待，覺得哈金筆下的美國的華裔第二代移民的描寫很多都只友寫道表象但是卻有沒搔到癢處不太痛快。
可能是前不久才看了印裔美籍作家鍾芭‧拉希利的『陌生的土地』同樣是描寫第二代移民在美國的短篇小說集但是後者卻顯得深沉且讓人印象深刻甚或到感同身受的境地。

儘管如此『落地』依舊是本很好看的書，每則段落篇章都充滿了American dream的夢幻但是書中人物能確切完成夢想的又有幾人呢。

這本書算是我開始嚮往歐洲學習歐語愛上咖啡館與咖啡的啟蒙吧

高中自圖書館借到這本書的前版之後，就愛不釋手了

精美的印刷，攝影師作者的奇幻咖啡廳取角，淡淡的文字敘述著這些古老悠久咖啡廳的歷史或是屏除那咖啡廳的歷史與裝潢只著筆在當下喝咖啡的氛圍與場景

步行書

遣唐史 P75

定居的人對旅人託以放浪漫的想像，旅人也同樣需要定居的人，需要等候者，需要被百轉千迴地想念。

感想: 我想這就是我旅行的意義了吧，我需要遠離我在乎的人們讓自己知道我有多麼的需要他們對我的在意。

這些古代的旅人，沒有飛機和火車，他的旅行的世界比現在更廣大，更被未知所覆蓋。離別像是眼見對方被廣闊無邊的空間吸收了。音信與歸期同樣杳杳，於是懸念就這樣抽絲生長了起來。

感想: 即使是在交通脈絡如此密集普遍、網際網路科技如此發達的今天，濃縮了所有空間與時間的距離...離別這種事依舊是讓人無法抑止思念的蔓延與懸念的抽長。

2006年讀了一些忘了因何原因而中斷，最近重新細讀了一次

果然內容如書名般 沒有一定的章法，作者完完全全隨自己喜好帶領著讀者在巴黎的小巷弄與特定城區裡漫遊著。

漫遊路線所經過的城區都有其非凡的特點不是一般觀光旅遊書中所能得知的特別資訊，例如哪些法國當代文學家、藝術工作者等的故居或是文人學者們喜愛聚集辯論的小酒館或咖啡廳。

因為作者是以美國人長久居住於巴黎的觀點來寫，所以所介紹的城區都是巴黎融合多樣宗教文化的區域，讓我們認知巴黎對異文化的兼容並蓄與對異國人的高接受度。

關於美國人與法國人對於黑人的接納度與描寫讓我大受感動，認識了巴黎的另一面。當然作者也列舉了很多當代在美國不受重視有志難伸的藝術工作者(作家音樂家 演員等)在法國的受歡迎程度以及如何的意氣風發 ，等的敘述，是我覺得相當有趣的地方。更進而覺得每個國家對於藝術的接納度的確很不一樣。