西班牙之魂

Name: 西班牙之魂
Rating: 8.1 (59 reviews)
ISBN: 9787305111235

[英] 贾尔斯·特雷穆莱特

出版社

南京大学出版社

出版时间

2013-03-31

ISBN

9787305111235

评分

★★★★★

标签

历史地理

书籍介绍

这不是一本西班牙文化速览，而是一位英国记者用几十年驻外生涯换来的

作者简介

贾尔斯·特雷穆莱特，英国《卫报》驻西班牙记者。

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核心看点

本书由资深英国记者撰写，深入剖析当代西班牙社会的复杂矛盾与历史遗留问题。作者拒绝肤浅的旅游指南式描写，而是直面内战创伤、弗朗哥独裁统治的阴影以及民主转型期的阵痛，揭示西班牙社会在沉默与喧嚣、传统与现代之间的撕裂与挣扎。
书中探讨了加泰罗尼亚独立运动、巴斯克地区冲突等敏感政治议题，同时批判性地审视了西班牙旅游业对经济的依赖及其社会代价。作者以敏锐的观察力，揭露了所谓‘西班牙热情’表象下的社会焦虑、噪音污染以及深层的文化冲突与身份认同危机。
作者结合历史学家的严谨与记者的敏锐，梳理了从帝国衰落到内战，再到民主重建的脉络。书中涉及宗教、性别、暴力记忆等禁忌话题，展现了西班牙人在遗忘协定下的集体失忆，以及新一代对历史真相的追问，提供了超越刻板印象的深度社会观察。

读者共识

读者普遍认为本书比一般的旅游笔记深刻得多，作者作为长期驻西记者，提供了真实、独到且具批判性的视角。尽管部分读者遗憾书中人文风情描写较少，但多数评价认为其对社会矛盾、历史创伤及政治现实的揭露极具价值，是了解真实西班牙不可或缺的重要读物，翻译质量也获得认可。
读者指出本书不适合寻求轻松娱乐或表面文化猎奇的读者，其内容涉及大量政治敏感话题和社会阴暗面。有评论认为作者对西班牙民主转型过程的描写过于轻描淡写，甚至带有偏见。但总体而言，读者认可其作为严肃社会观察作品的价值，认为其揭示了西班牙光鲜表象下的深层裂痕与痛苦。
读者共识认为本书信息量大，逻辑严密，但阅读门槛较高，不适合零基础读者。部分读者反映书中对西班牙负面现象的集中描写可能强化刻板印象，建议读者辩证阅读。尽管如此，多数读者仍强烈推荐给希望深入理解西班牙社会复杂性、历史遗留问题及当代政治困境的严肃读者，认为其具有极高的思想深度。

精彩摘录

"This country is famous for noise. Newspapers occasionally report on how the noise levels of Madrid or Barcelona pose a danger to health and sanity. One in four Madrid streets subjects its residents to noise beyond World Health Organisation limits, one report tells me. Half of fourteen to twenty seve"
"anger is worn lightly, and easily disposed of. Perhaps that is why Spaniards do not share that anglosaion weakness for fisticuffs. Road rage is considered fine, even healthy. You may sit in your car, blast your horn and insult anyone who takes your fancy. Nobody, however steps out with hatred in the"
"the Two Spains, seem to have something to do with the Spanish love of forming groups and clans. Spaniards like to move en masse, to belong to large gaggles. They celebrate, and demonstrate, in huge throngs-their enjoyment increased by the numbers with them. It is one of the great and enviable things"
"A country that had slowly, over several hundred years, lost a once vast empire, finally turned against itself. This loss of empire had reached its final point in 1898 with what became known as el Desastre, the Disaster. In that year Spain lost Puerto Rico, the Philippines and, in a humiliating naval"
"By the time the guns had stopped smoking and Franco had signed his final parte de guerra on 1 April 1939, some half a million Spaniards were dead. There are no exact figures, but it is thought that some 200,000 were executed by the two sides. There were also thousands of dead Italians and Germans, w"
"The war dragged on for three years. Franco could probably have won it in a lot less time. But he preferred to avoid an early battle in Madrid and, anyway, he was not just after military victory. He wanted more than that. His fellow generals appointed him head of Government of the Spanish State in Se"
"Up to 60,000 people were killed by the left, a number probably doubled by Franco's followers. The difference was not just in scale. Neither the Republican authorities, nor the political parties of the left sanctioned reprisals, one historian points out. The savage repression perpetrated on the Natio"
"Those who lost the war were condemned to silence, imposed on them by the dictatorship and agreed on by the democracy in the Amnesty Law of 1977. That condemnation has now reached the third generation of these families. Today there are people who still feel the need to lower their voices or even to c"