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发表于2025-02-10
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What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens?
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between works and lives -- from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to the depredations of the AIDS crisis -- Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.
Humane, provocative and deeply moving, The Lonely City is about the spaces between people and the things that draw them together, about sexuality, mortality and the magical possibilities of art. It's a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.
Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. Her first book, To the River, was published by Canongate to wide acclaim and shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. She has been the deputy books editor of the Observer, and writes for The Guardian, New Statesman, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. She is a MacDowell Fellow, and has received grants from the Arts Council and the Authors' Foundation. She lives in Cambridge, England.
最近几天下雨的夜晚。
评分意料之外的,这本人物传记、自传、文化评论结合体是我的五星阅读。 并不刻意寻找关于艺术、或70-90年代纽约这类主题的我竟在一边细品作者描述这个城市、时代的艺术家时,一边不断在寻找这些他们的作品和事迹。如作者表达的那样,孤独感,它并不会因为我们在熙熙攘攘的人群, 或全民参与的网络世界而减少。随着经济发展,gentrification改变的不仅是大同小异的城,更负面的副产品却是同化人的思想。而城里的人们前所未有更加孤独,但又偏偏不能轻易表达这些“负能量”的个人感受。 Laing从新的角度,带我们看艺术家的作品、记录,镜头里描述这千百年来人类共有的感受,突然间让我觉得孤独感少了。看他们如何在艺术里表达自我,表达孤独,在一个对这些艺术家极不友好的时代里发声。很有力量。
评分到纽约的第一周就有这种感觉了。
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评分越往后越好看 非常好看
原创 2018-03-11 南云禾Dagny 云禾的彼得潘 前面的话: 不知何时开始,我会避免正面谈论孤独,因为你不得不承认,这些东西早已被写过无数遍了,后来者很难再有不陷入矫情之嫌的创新。这本《孤独的城市》提供了一种新模式——让感性和理性轮番登台。 上一次有类似感受的书是凯...
评分正逢疫期,前陣子太過沉於絕望。這幾天才逐漸緩和下來,要求自己刷新聞次數減少,且每次必須轉發有效信息,同時重新撿起自己本該做的事情,希望一切儘快恢復光明。 因為還是頗難打開那些過於歡快的主題,所以選讀了Olivia Laing的這本,買了大半年遲遲未讀。看書前需要做的事,...
评分The content of the book does not justify the title. Every chapter focuses on one artist, and describes their life, art and their loneliness. Since I'm not interested in artists, this is not the book I want, and I feel I was deceived. Bad feeling...I think t...
评分在几个废墟一样灰暗、飘满了细碎的雨的秋日过后,天气终于又慷慨地放了晴。晚上一个人在咖啡馆,终于读完了《孤独的城市》。 书是去年秋天买的,读完第一章过后就出于各种原因被闲置了。我在读书方面是个轻易半途而废的人,很多被筛选掉的书不会再翻第二次,就像很多潦草告别的...
评分The Lonely City pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025