具體描述
For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
作者簡介
Paul Kalanithi, M.D., was a neurosurgeon and writer. Paul grew up in Kingman, Arizona, before attending Stanford University, from which he graduated in 2000 with a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature and a B.A. in Human Biology. He earned an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine from the University of Cambridge before attending medical school. In 2007, Paul graduated cum-laude from the Yale School of Medicine, winning the Lewis H. Nahum Prize for outstanding research and membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. He returned to Stanford for residency training in Neurological Surgery and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience, during which he authored over twenty scientific publications and received the American Academy of Neurological Surgery’s highest award for research.
Paul’s reflections on doctoring and illness – he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in 2013, though he never smoked – have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Paris Review Daily, in addition to interviews in academic settings and media outlets such as MSNBC. Paul completed neurosurgery residency in 2014. Paul died in March, 2015, while working on When Breath Becomes Air, an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.. He is survived by his wife Lucy and their daughter Cady.
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讀後感
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評分用戶評價
這本書的文字功底真是令人驚嘆。作者的敘事視角非常獨特，能夠將深刻的哲學思考融入到日常生活的細節描繪中，讀起來一點也不覺得枯燥，反而有一種娓娓道來的力量。尤其是在描繪人物內心掙紮和情感轉變的部分，筆觸細膩入微，仿佛能讓人真切地感受到角色呼吸之間的起伏。那種對生命意義的追問，不是空泛的說教，而是通過一係列真實、感人的事件自然而然地流淌齣來。我特彆欣賞作者對於語言的駕馭能力，那些精妙的比喻和恰到好處的留白，讓讀者有足夠的空間去自行體會和解讀，每一次重讀都能發現新的感悟。整體來看，這不僅僅是一個故事，更像是一次對存在本質的深入探索，文字的力量在此刻得到瞭淋灕盡緻的展現，讓人讀完後久久不能平靜，心靈受到瞭極大的觸動和洗禮。這本書的結構處理也非常巧妙，時而跳躍，時而迴溯，但始終緊緊抓住瞭核心的情感主綫，引人入勝。
评分閱讀體驗上，這本書的節奏把握得極佳，像一部精心剪輯的電影。它在敘事流暢性和思想深邃度之間找到瞭一個完美的平衡點。有時候，作者會用一段極其日常、近乎平鋪直敘的文字，突然拋齣一個足以讓人停下來沉思半晌的觀點，這種張弛有度的敘事技巧，極大地增強瞭文本的張力。我特彆喜歡書中對職業與個人身份之間復雜關係的探討。當一個人畢生所學、所追求的領域，與自身將要麵對的終極命運産生正麵衝突時，那種身份認同的危機感被刻畫得入木三分。這讓這本書的受眾群體遠遠超齣瞭特定人群，任何在生活中努力構建自我價值體係的人，都能從中找到強烈的共鳴點。它迫使你重新審視自己現有的軌道，並思考在你設定的“成功”或“完整”的定義之外，真正讓你感到充實的是什麼。
评分這本書給我最大的感受是它的“誠實度”。作者似乎完全卸下瞭所有社會期待的麵具，以一種近乎近乎私密的日記形式，嚮世界坦露瞭他內心最深處的恐懼與希望。這種極度的坦誠，使得文字本身帶有一種近乎神聖的重量感。閱讀過程中，我時常需要停下來，不是因為情節復雜，而是因為那些字句太過於精準地命中瞭某些我一直試圖迴避的情緒。這本書像一麵鏡子，照見的不僅是作者的生命軌跡，也摺射齣每一個閱讀者的內心世界。它探討瞭愛與責任、專業精神與人性關懷之間的微妙界限，並將這些抽象概念，通過具體的傢庭互動場景具體化。總而言之，這是一部需要用心去感受、去消化的作品，它帶來的影響是持久的、潛移默化的，它讓我在讀完許久之後，依然能夠感受到文字中蘊含的那種跨越生死的、對美好事物的不懈留戀與珍視。
评分從文學史的角度來看，這本書的價值不言而喻，它提供瞭一個現代人麵對不可抗力時的絕佳樣本。它的力量不在於提供瞭答案，而在於它完美地呈現瞭“提問”本身的過程——那個充滿睏惑、掙紮、妥協與和解的復雜心路曆程。語言風格上，它呈現齣一種極為成熟的“去煽情化”的傾嚮，但這絕不意味著情感的缺失，恰恰相反，最深沉的情感往往不需要誇張的辭藻來烘托。作者像是用一把鋒利的手術刀，精準地切開瞭錶層的情緒，直達核心的痛點和真誠。我發現自己不僅在為書中的人物而感動，更是在為一個普通人在麵對巨大挑戰時所展現齣的那種堅韌的、充滿探索欲的人性光輝而摺服。這本書的結尾處理得非常高明，它沒有落入俗套的圓滿或徹底的絕望，而是留下瞭一種充滿尊嚴的、嚮前看的姿態。
评分這本書帶來的震撼是全方位的，它不僅僅是文學上的成功，更是一種對人生態度的強力衝擊。我很少讀到能夠如此坦誠地剖析人類最脆弱、最本能恐懼的作品。作者毫不迴避地將那些我們通常選擇性遺忘的、關於終結的議題擺在瞭颱麵上，但處理方式卻充滿瞭智慧和剋製。它沒有過度渲染悲情，而是以一種近乎冷靜的、科學傢的精確度來審視死亡的降臨，這種反差反而製造齣更強大的情感張力。每一次翻頁都像是一次深呼吸，既害怕接下來會讀到什麼，又忍不住想知道作者將如何繼續這場與命運的對話。這本書成功地將“接受”這個宏大而虛無的概念，具象化為每一個具體的瞬間、每一次微小的決定。讀完之後，我感覺自己對“珍惜當下”這句話有瞭全新的、更紮實的理解，不再是口號式的安慰，而是植根於對有限性的深刻認識。
评分都說他文筆好，可我覺得最後他妻子epilogue的部分，文筆完勝他啊！更喜歡Being Mortal。
评分感觸太多太多瞭。 尤其是就在醫生的身邊。唉。他有深深的不甘心 但是他也準備好瞭。
评分What's the meaning of life? What is the meaning of job? Am I doing meaningful things with my life? Paul gave his answers to these questions through his dedication to thinking, reading and caring for the patient. What about the rest of us?
评分第一次聽有聲書，不太習慣朗讀者的拿腔拿調，讓文字失去瞭想象空間。這本書的內容和視角都比較個人化，很感人但內容略微單薄，文筆也有點生硬，也許是時間所迫。敬佩作者的勤奮專注，這是麵對死亡能做齣最有力的反擊。
评分What's the meaning of life? What is the meaning of job? Am I doing meaningful things with my life? Paul gave his answers to these questions through his dedication to thinking, reading and caring for the patient. What about the rest of us?
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