Walking with Ghosts

基本信息

Format:Hardback 208 pages

Publisher:Grove Press

ISBN:9780802157126

Published:28 Jan 2021

Weight:430g

Dimensions:231 x 25 x 152 mm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《与鬼同行》是爱尔兰演员和好莱坞影星加布里埃尔·拜恩（Gabriel Byrne）令人叹为观止的回忆录。

加布里埃尔·拜恩在都柏林郊区长大，那是一个迅速扩张的城市边缘，小时候的他在家乡附近田野和山丘之间的想象世界中寻求庇护。他出生在工人阶级家庭，是六个孩子中的老大，从小渴望成为一名牧师。当他11岁的时候，拜恩需要自己穿越爱尔兰海到英格兰的一所神学院读书。四年后，拜恩被退学，回到家乡。为了维持生计，他做过一些零工，比如送信工和工厂工人。闲暇时间，他独自一人看电影。正是在这里，他开始想象60年代爱尔兰灰色世界之外的生活。

他醉心于戏剧和都柏林街头的诗歌，笔下的人物和小说里的人物一样古怪而非凡，用敏锐和机智编织着故事。一个朋友建议伯恩加入一个业余戏剧团体，这个决定永远改变了他一生，开启了他在电影和戏剧领域长达40年的非凡生涯。拜恩勇敢地讲述了他与上瘾的斗争和成名的矛盾心理。

《与鬼同行》时而令人捧腹，时而令人心碎，时而抒情地向人物和风景致敬，最终塑造我们的命运。

Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne.

“Make no mistake about it: Walking with Ghosts is a masterpiece. A book that will wring out our tired hearts. It is by turns poetic, moving, and very funny. You will find it on the shelf alongside other great Irish memoirs including those by Frank McCourt, Nuala O'Faolain and Edna O’Brien.” —Colum McCann

As a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills near his home, at the edge of a rapidly encroaching city. Born to working class parents and the eldest of six children, he harbored a childhood desire to become a priest. When he was eleven years old, Byrne found himself crossing the Irish Sea to join a seminary in England. Four years later, Byrne had been expelled and he quickly returned to his native city. There he took odd jobs as a messenger boy and a factory laborer to get by. In his spare time, he visited the cinema where he could be alone and yet part of a crowd. It was here that he could begin to imagine a life beyond the grey world of 60s Ireland.

He reveled in the theatre and poetry of Dublin’s streets, populated by characters as eccentric and remarkable as any in fiction, those who spin a yarn with acuity and wit. It was a friend who suggested Byrne join an amateur drama group, a decision that would change his life forever and launch him on an extraordinary forty-year career in film and theatre. Moving between sensual recollection of childhood in a now almost vanished Ireland and reflections on stardom in Hollywood and Broadway, Byrne also courageously recounts his battle with addiction and the ambivalence of fame.

Walking with Ghosts is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking as well as a lyrical homage to the people and landscapes that ultimately shape our destinies.

名人推荐

“这本回忆录的神奇之处在于它不加修饰的真实性。它的作者是一个有着惊人故事的文学作品的人。”——艾德娜·奥布莱恩，爱尔兰小说家、回忆录作者

"The wonder of this memoir is its unembellished truth. It is written by a man whose amazing story is the stuff of Literature." --Edna O' Brien

“毫无疑问，《与鬼同行》是一部杰作。这本书将使我们疲惫的心灵得到解脱。它时而富有诗意，时而动人，时而有趣。”——科伦·麦凯恩，爱尔兰作家，《黑河钓事》《十三种观看方式》的作者

"Make no mistake about it: Walking with Ghosts is a masterpiece. A book that will wring out our tired hearts. It is by turns poetic, moving, and very funny. You will find it on the shelf alongside other great Irish memoirs including those by Frank McCourt, Nuala O'Faolain and Edna O'Brien." --Colum McCann

“梦幻般的，抒情的，毫不掩饰的。热情地描写初恋，滑稽地描写演员的生活。”——科尔姆·托宾，《南方》的作者

"Dreamy, lyrical, and utterly unvarnished. Writes passionately about first love and hilariously about life as an actor " --Colm Toibin, The Irish Times

媒体推荐

“没有比一本诚实敏感的回忆录更伟大的真理；他接近于深刻感人地阐述了我们在地球上短暂的时间，这段时间将使我们每个人都不过是一个幽灵。”——《独立报》

Byrne arrives at a truth greater than an honest and sensitive memoir; he verges on a profoundly touching articulation of our short time on earth, time that will make of each of us nothing more or less than a ghost ― Independent

作者简介

加布里埃尔·拜恩（Gabriel Byrne），1950年5月12日出生在爱尔兰、演员。29岁时，拜恩开始了自己的表演事业。1987年凭《歌德夜谭》获得全球奇幻电影奖最佳男主角奖；1995年电影《非常嫌疑犯》获得美国国家电影评论协会最佳集体表演奖；2007年 拜恩获得第五届詹姆士都柏林国际电影节终身成就演员奖。 2008、2009年凭借电视剧《扪心问诊》获得艾美奖正剧类最佳男主角提名。

Gabriel Byrne was born in Dublin in 1950. Before becoming an actor, he joined a seminary with hopes of becoming a Catholic priest. Byrne is best known for his work in The Usual Suspects, Miller’s Crossing, and Into the West. He’s also done extensive work as a television actor and as a director and producer. He is based in New York.