蓝房子

by 北岛

《蓝房子》是诗人北岛的散文集，写他在国内国外的所见、所闻、所忆、所历。北岛的散文如他的诗一样优美，高雅，无论是写人，还是叙事，他娓娓道来，如谈家常，亲切而自然，使人阅读轻松，有陶然之感。

Genres: Poetry, Essays, China

Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

北岛，原名赵振开，1949年生于北京。做过建筑工人、编辑、自由撰稿人。1978年在北京创办文学杂志《今天》，担任主编至今。自1987年起在欧洲和北美居住并任教。获得多种国际文学奖项及荣誉。作品被译成三十多种文字。现与家人定居香港。

Reviews

[Akin · Rating 5 out of 5]

First published in 1998, Chinese poet Bei Dao’s collection of essays focuses on the lives of varied exiled Chinese and Western poets famous and obscure, from luminaries such as Allen Ginsberg, King Hu, Susan Sontag and Octavio Paz, to lesser-known poets whose stories intersect poignantly with the author’s own experiences in life, art and travel.
Written from cosmopolitan backdrops as exotic as Prague, New York City, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong into the rural fastnesses of New England, the South Africa veld, and the enduring countryside of Mao-era China, Bei Dao contrasts the ordinariness of poets’ lives with the profundity and cultural significance of their art.
Bei Dao’s memoirs in Blue House are stunning in their modesty, candor and startling clarity. As placid and yet as intense as his poetry, his anecdotes of colleagues, countries, cats, crows and the irrepressibility of expression ( artistic and otherwise) mark him as one of the world’s greatest contemporary writers, something that he himself would unassumingly deny.

[Maddie · Rating 4 out of 5]

romanticize academia why don’t you…and yet..catapulting me into Gary Snyder era

[Zhoucai Ni · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thought it would be more interesting and wanted to learn more about his exile from China. Had more pictures than poems lol. The 4th part was more personal and entertaining tho.

[WaldenOgre · Rating 4 out of 5]

“话说回来了，那时我们有梦，关于文学，关于爱情，关于穿越世界的旅行。如今我们深夜饮酒，杯子碰到一起，都是梦破碎的声音。”在北岛散文的皮囊之下，依然流淌着诗的血液。

[H · Rating 3 out of 5]

more appropriate to call these memoirs than sketches. worthwhile fragments from the life of an artist in exile