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发表于2024-11-29
The Book of Lost Books pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books is the first guide to literature’s what-ifs and never-weres.
In compulsively readable fashion, Stuart Kelly reveals details about tantalizing vanished works by the famous, the acclaimed, and the influential, from the time of cave drawings to the late twentieth century. Here are the true stories behind stories, poems, and plays that now exist only in imagination:
·Aristophanes’ Heracles, the Stage Manager was one of the playwright’s several spoofs that disappeared.
·Love’s Labours Won may have been a sequel to Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours Lost–or was it just an alternative title for The Taming of the Shrew?
·Jane Austen’s incomplete novel Sanditon, was a critique of hypochondriacs and cures started when the author was fatally ill.
·Nikolai Gogol burned the second half of Dead Souls after a religious conversion convinced him that literature was paganism.
·Some of the thousand pages of William Burroughs’s original Naked Lunch were stolen and sold on the street by Algerian street boys.
·Sylvia Plath’s widower, Ted Hughes, claimed that the 130 pages of her second novel, perhaps based on their marriage, were lost after her death.
Whether destroyed (Socrates’ versions of Aesop’s Fables), misplaced (Malcolm Lowry’s Ultramarine was pinched from his publisher’s car), interrupted by the author’s death (Robert Louis Stevenson’s Weir of Hermiston), or simply never begun (Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, America, a second volume of his memoirs), these missing links create a history of literature for a parallel world. Civilized and satirical, erudite yet accessible, The Book of Lost Books is itself a find.
斯圖爾特·凱利,生於1972年,長期擔任《蘇格蘭周日》(Scotland on Sunday)和《詩歌評論》(Poetry Review)雜誌書評人。
目前與妻子一起居住在愛丁堡,這是他的的一本書。
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評分弗洛伊德写过的关于文艺批评的东西很少,但是却对文艺批评产生了巨大影响,以至于一些观点已经成为永恒的经典,一些术语被赋予了约定俗称的含义。在弗洛伊德的文艺批评里曾经提到过作家的两种倾向:快乐追求和死亡冲动。作家的死亡冲动在作品中常常表现为一种毁灭感,无...
The Book of Lost Books pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024