圖書標籤: 李翊雲 美國 小說 文學 Yiyun-Li 長篇小說 英文原版 死亡
发表于2025-01-31
Where Reasons End pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
A brilliant writer imagines a fictional conversation between a mother and the teenage son she lost to suicide. Yiyun Li confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love.
The narrator writes, "I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words."
Written in the months after the author lost a child to suicide and composed as a story cycle, this conversation between mother and child unfolds in a timeless world. Deeply intimate, poignant, and moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity in a relationship across generations, even as they capture the pain of sadness, longing, and loss.
In writing this book, Yiyun Li was inspired by a line from Proust's Remembrance of Things Past "Ideas come to us as the successors to griefs, and griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some part of their power to injure the heart; the transformation itself, even, for an instant, releases suddenly a little joy."
Meeting life's deepest sorrow with originality, precision and poise, Where Reasons End is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China and moved to the United States in 1996. She received an MFA from Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review,and elsewhere. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award and was awarded a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, TX. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and California Book Award for first fiction. She was recently selected as one of Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons, and teaches at University of California, Davis.
用非母語寫作的人能很容易體會這種和語詞纏鬥、肉搏的感覺。理解語言,不僅是理解它的含義、背後的邏輯和思維方式,更是它承載的生命體驗。兒子之死將母親拋擲到一種獨特的存在狀態中,全書沒有“故事”,隻有想象中的母子對話。母親迴憶兒子的感傷不斷被兒子的反駁消解,並迅速展開詭辯般對語言的糾纏,小說進入瞭對文學和語言本身的反思。我們能否避免隱喻和陳詞濫調?形容詞、名詞、副詞對我們的生活世界意味著什麼?當然,也少不瞭海外移民女性的諸多體驗,一代和二代移民之間的關係等等……
評分This is an unconventional book about loss and grief.
評分意外地得到瞭一種撫慰,在無盡的對話之中看似精緻,實際上又像是在大段對話的空白之中留下瞭故意粗糙的陰影。死亡、離彆與永生在其中被悼念著,但事實上歸於母愛,質地始終是留下瞭溫暖烙印的。大概是得到瞭慰藉的原因。
評分纔疏學淺的我也是在讀完這本書後纔第一次知道,原來寫作對於作傢來說還可以起到充當“靈媒”角色的作用。這本書讀起來像是治療和二次傷害的矛盾結閤體,我讀完真是心情鬱結(我不敢說我完全讀懂瞭,以後會再讀)。
評分非常私人的對於兒子去世的grief(這種悲痛甚至超越瞭grief吧)的描述;通過和兒子的對話,關於措辭和語言的些許詭辯,從而讓讀者瞭解到作為媽媽的心情。(今年怎麼讀瞭這麼多關於失去孩子的書???)
Where reasons end是Yiyun Li在十六岁的大儿子毫无征兆地自杀后写作的,写的是一个母亲和死去的儿子Nicolai的对话,在一个没有时间没有视觉仅有声音的地方 Yiyun Li另有一本回忆录叫Dear Friend, from my life I write to you in your life: 她这样解释这个题目: The books on...
評分This is an unconventional book about lost and grief. A imaginative conversation between a mother and her teenage son who took his own life. Nicolai is dead yet it seems so real to me that he's there. Yiyun's writing connects them together without any cliche...
評分 評分This is an unconventional book about lost and grief. A imaginative conversation between a mother and her teenage son who took his own life. Nicolai is dead yet it seems so real to me that he's there. Yiyun's writing connects them together without any cliche...
評分This is an unconventional book about lost and grief. A imaginative conversation between a mother and her teenage son who took his own life. Nicolai is dead yet it seems so real to me that he's there. Yiyun's writing connects them together without any cliche...
Where Reasons End pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025