汉娜·阿伦特的学术著作读起来颇有些费劲,但她的《黑暗时代的人们》却是感情饱满、文笔通畅,全书所述的几个人物,无不闪耀着人性之光辉。通常写人物的篇什易流于琐碎,如流水账一般,而阿伦特笔下看不到传记固有的从童年到成年的成长史,以及师长友朋、婚丧嫁娶,她的人物直奔思想主题,时间也往往选取最有争议、因而也最易出彩的节点,事件的描述上多异于习惯的角度和定论。比如 Hannah Arendt’s academic writings read quite a bit strenuous, but her “dark age people” is full of feelings, writing smooth, the book described several figures, all shine with the glorious humanity. Often the characters in the writing of people are trivial, such as running account, and Arendt does not see biography of the inherent growth history from childhood to adulthood, as well as teachers and friends, marriage and funeral, her characters went straight to thinking Theme, the time also often choose the most controversial, and thus the most likely to color the node, the description of the event is different from the perspective and conclusion of the habit. such as