Posted in Charlotte Brontë, Deconstruction, Derrida, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Hegel, London Review of Books (LRB), Mahasweta Devi, Marx, Mary Shelley, Terry Eagleton, 大唐, tagged 纽约 & 伦敦书评 on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
大唐那会儿，怎么没有扶桑、新罗或安南的文人写一篇类似的文章来解气呢？
在中华帝国文武鼎盛的时候，“白环西献，楛矢东来，夜郎滇池，解辫请职，朝鲜昌海，蹶角受化”，有许多扶桑、新罗、安南人留学长安。就如同当今来自天竺的 Spivak 是先留学再执教美利坚一样，历史上的他们虽然与大汉不同文不同种，却都想在长安讨口饭吃。虽然是“长安居，大不易”，那些来自扶桑、新罗、安南的留学生到底是舍不得长安的，况且日子久了，也有成“腕儿”的可能。
Eagleton 这篇文章，快人快语，对美利坚这座“长安”城和里面的外来腕儿们并不另眼相看。不过 Eagleton 有这样做的本钱：他是“大”英帝国的人，与大美利坚同文同种，却又偏隔着海。
Terry Eagleton/ In the Gaudy Supermarket
A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak · Harvard, 448 pp, £30.95
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It might just be, of course, that the point of a wretched sentence like ‘the in-choate in-fans ab-original para-subject cannot be theorised as functionally completely [...]
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Posted in Burma, Eton, Housman, Kipling, London Review of Books (LRB), Pound, Terry Eagleton, Yeats, socialism, 乔治·奥威尔, 伊格尔顿, tagged 纽约 & 伦敦书评 on April 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Terry Eagleton/ Reach-Me-Down Romantic
George Orwell by Gordon Bowker · Little, Brown, 495 pp, £20.00
Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor · Chatto, 448 pp, £20.00
Orwell: Life and Times by Scott Lucas · Haus, 180 pp, £8.99
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Like any self-transformation, this one was imperfect. Orwell may have castigated Britain’s class-ridden education system, but he put his adopted son [...]
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这篇书评里，伊格尔顿骂人的厉害劲儿不弱于鲁迅先生。
Terry Eagleton/ The Estate Agent
The Trouble with Principle by Stanley Fish · Harvard, 328 pp, £15.50
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Like most of his compatriots, Fish is not the most cosmopolitan of creatures. The essays in The Trouble with Principle deal with racism, pornography, abortion, free speech, religion, sexual discrimination, in fact most of the stock-in-trade of enlightened US [...]
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