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发表于2024-11-23
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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.
We are individuals, so we can't possibly escape loneliness.
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評分I have mixed feelings about her writing. A lovely selection of artists, though, and I'm glad I read it when I was also reading AIDS activism texts, when Andy Warhol was on exhibit at the Art Institute, when I could take the Blue Line to Intuit and look at a replication of Henry Darger's room.
評分在Portland的Powell's Books找到這本書的時候欣喜若狂,也因為這本書重新審視瞭孤獨這個話題。
“人独自一人出生,独自一人死去,而置于生死之间,最重要的就是信任和爱。”艺术家路易丝•布尔乔亚在自己生命结尾时如是说道。她漫长而灿烂的一生证明了独处如何丰富了艺术创作。这个观点很有趣,但可能只限于那些喜欢并接受独处的人们,而对那些无法忍受的个体而言,这种...
評分首先我是被这本书的书名所深深吸引,我想这对于生活在北上广深一线城市的我们应该都深有感触。身在拥有超过两千万人口的超级都市中,即便在人潮汹涌的地铁高峰期、从火车站准备出行或到达抑或是参加多人聚餐或party,那份孤独感往往扑面而来,把我们裹挟其中。 城市中的孤独犹...
評分首先我是被这本书的书名所深深吸引,我想这对于生活在北上广深一线城市的我们应该都深有感触。身在拥有超过两千万人口的超级都市中,即便在人潮汹涌的地铁高峰期、从火车站准备出行或到达抑或是参加多人聚餐或party,那份孤独感往往扑面而来,把我们裹挟其中。 城市中的孤独犹...
評分首先我是被这本书的书名所深深吸引,我想这对于生活在北上广深一线城市的我们应该都深有感触。身在拥有超过两千万人口的超级都市中,即便在人潮汹涌的地铁高峰期、从火车站准备出行或到达抑或是参加多人聚餐或party,那份孤独感往往扑面而来,把我们裹挟其中。 城市中的孤独犹...
The Lonely City pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024