Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life.
A singular international publishing event, Conversations with Myself draws on Mandela’s personal archive of never-before-seen materials to offer unique access to the private world of an incomparable world leader. Journals kept on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle of the early 1960s; diaries and draft letters written in Robben Island and other South African prisons during his twenty-seven years of incarceration; notebooks from the postapartheid transition; private recorded conversations; speeches and correspondence written during his presidency—a historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation is brought together into a sweeping narrative of great immediacy and stunning power. An intimate journey from Mandela’s first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations with Myself illuminates a heroic life forged on the front lines of the struggle for freedom and justice.
While other books have recounted Mandela’s life from the vantage of the present, Conversations with Myself allows, for the first time, unhindered insight into the human side of the icon.
作者纳尔逊·曼德拉是我们这个时代最令人鼓舞的偶像之一。在曼德拉的一生中,他用纸和笔记录着自己的所思所想、大小事件、艰难险阻以及诸多成就。现在,他将这些私人档案公之于世,让我们有这次前所未有的机会了解他波澜壮阔的一生。从曼德拉最黑暗的27年牢狱生活的信件,到《漫漫自由路》未出版的书稿,《与自己对话》将带我们走入一个公众人物的私人世界。这里有他在会议中的纪要,甚至涂鸦,有他在罗本岛的牢房中记录在台历上的踟蹰的梦境;也有他在20年代60年代反对种族隔离制度时那段逃亡岁月的日记,还有他与朋友近70个小时的对话录音。这一页页文字中呈现的曼德拉不再是偶像,也不是圣人,而是普通如你我……从他第一次萌动政治理想,到他在世界舞台上发挥举足轻重的作用,曼德拉在《与自己对话》一书中坦诚面对人生。阅读《与自己对话》亦是一次与作为一个普通人的曼德拉相处的机会,一次聆听他的心声的机会。