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发表于2024-11-14
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In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives, and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivion. The act of reading is understood here as the most sacred and personal of activities, and there are brilliant discussions of individual works – among others, Chekhov’s story ‘The Kiss’, W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants, and Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower.
Wood reveals his own intimate relationship with the written word: we see the development of a provincial boy growing up in a charged Christian environment, the secret joy of his childhood reading, the links he makes between reading and blasphemy, or between literature and music. The final section discusses fiction in the context of exile and homelessness. The Nearest Thing to Life is not simply a brief, tightly argued book by a man commonly regarded as our finest living critic – it is also an exhilarating personal account that reflects on, and embodies, the fruitful conspiracy between reader and writer (and critic), and asks us to re-consider everything that is at stake when we read and write fiction.
James Douglas Graham Wood is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist. He is currently Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University (a part-time position) and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine.
Wood advocates an aesthetic approach to literature, rather than more ideologically-driven trends in academic literary criticism.
Wood is noted for coining the genre term hysterical realism, which he uses to denote the contemporary conception of the "big, ambitious novel" that pursues vitality "at all costs." Hysterical realism describes novels that are characterized by chronic length, manic characters, frenzied action, and frequent digressions on topics secondary to the story.
Wood重视文学作品中的细节在本质上就是一种轻逸的痛苦,这种痛苦相悖于生活中沉痛的打击,而是在转瞬即逝的小事中瞥到无法逃避的宿命感。如同纳博科夫将纸巾落下赋予“infinite listlessness",作家的职责就像他所说的那样,是rescue the life of things for their death. 同时,Metaphor的实质是identification,世界主义和后殖民主义的浪潮将我们所有人都置身于他所描述的transcendental homelessness,这一切苦涩融入我们的血液后再次变成我们的文字,也同时变成我们的生命。
评分好喜欢,是每天读时觉得可以躲进去一会儿的一本书。与其说是文学评论,不如称作是写给不同文学作品的一封长长的情书,基于文学本身思考生命,死亡,时间,和家乡vs.异乡。
评分Wood重视文学作品中的细节在本质上就是一种轻逸的痛苦,这种痛苦相悖于生活中沉痛的打击,而是在转瞬即逝的小事中瞥到无法逃避的宿命感。如同纳博科夫将纸巾落下赋予“infinite listlessness",作家的职责就像他所说的那样,是rescue the life of things for their death. 同时,Metaphor的实质是identification,世界主义和后殖民主义的浪潮将我们所有人都置身于他所描述的transcendental homelessness,这一切苦涩融入我们的血液后再次变成我们的文字,也同时变成我们的生命。
评分书里的大部分观点不算新颖,但是James Wood毕竟读书多,文笔也不错,还是值得一看的。最后一章"Secular Homelessness"更像是一篇私人的散文作品,夹杂着作者离开英国到美国定居的经历,写出了那种远离故土后心灵上漂泊无定的感受,还挺有感触……
评分好喜欢,是每天读时觉得可以躲进去一会儿的一本书。与其说是文学评论,不如称作是写给不同文学作品的一封长长的情书,基于文学本身思考生命,死亡,时间,和家乡vs.异乡。
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