罗伯斯庇尔与法国大革命

by Ruth Scurr, 张雅楠 (Translator)

从文雅柔弱的知识青年成长为血雨腥风的革命领袖终于在36岁时走上断头台——马克西米利安·罗伯斯庇尔的一生令人感慨，令人恐惧，更令人反省。他是卢梭最坚定的信徒，一个热衷改造人类社会的理想主义者。他按照一种原理去设计一个理想天国，不遗余力不择手段去实现它，甚至不惜疯狂杀戮。他口才出众，风度翩翩，万人倾慕；他无比真诚高尚，是不可收买的革命者；他崇高伟大，具备难以企及的美德。但，他手上沾满鲜血，除了演说煽动，断头台就是他最得心应手的实现理想的工具。一个羞涩的年轻律师如何变成了暴力恐怖的化身？

理想、自负、盲从、狂热不会实现纯粹的理想国，最终只能是白骨累累。

560 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2015

About the author

Dr Ruth Scurr (born 1971, London) is a British writer, historian and literary critic. She is a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. She was educated at St Bernard's Convent, Slough; Oxford University, Cambridge University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. She won a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2000.

Her first book, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (Chatto & Windus, 2006; Metropolitan Books, 2006) won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize (2006), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize (2006), long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize (2007) and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times in 2009. It has been translated into five languages.

Scurr began reviewing regularly for The Times and The Times Literary Supplement in 1997. Since then she has also written for The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, New Statesman, The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The New York Observer, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal.

She was a judge on the Man Booker Prize panel in 2007, and the Samuel Johnson Prize panel in 2014. She is a member of the Folio Prize Academy.

Scurr is Director of Studies in Human, Social and Political Sciences for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where she has been a Fellow since 2006. Her research interests include: 17th and 18th century history of ideas; biographical, autobiographical and life writing; the British and French Enlightenments; the French Revolution; Revolutionary Memoir; early Feminist Political Thought; and contemporary fiction in English.

She was married to the political theorist John Dunn between 1997 and 2013. She has two daughters and a stepson.

(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Nautile · Rating 4 out of 5]

第一次看法革相关的书，大概把时间线搞清楚了……以后想再找找关于后期那段的书看。